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Principles for the Regulation of the Safety of Foods Derived from Agricultural Biotechnology - Advancing the Environmental Agenda

The Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP)
March 2004

References

Action Plan of the Government of Canada in response to the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel Report on the Future of Food Biotechnology, (Ottawa 2001), www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/protection/royalsociety/intro.htm.

African Model Law on Safety in Biotechnology, www.africbio.com/policies/MODEL%20Law%200N%20BIOSAFETY_ff.htm

Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, www.biodiv.org/biosafety/default.aspx

Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, A Citizen’s Guide to Biotechnology, Toronto, March 2002.

Codex Alimentarius, Draft Principles for the Risk Analysis of Foods Derived from Modern Biotechnology, www.codexalimentarius.net/biotech/en/ra_fbt.htm, 2001.

Rod MacRae, Mixed Messages, Canada's domestic regulatory system for GEOs contradicts basic principles underlying the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, Toronto, June 2001.

G.S. Nijar and the Third World Network, Model National Biosafety Law, Penang, Malaysia, 1999, www.twnside.org/sg/title/national-cn.htm

Royal Society of Canada, Elements of Precaution: Recommendations for the Regulation of Food Biotechnology of Food Biotechnology in Canada, An Expert Panel Report on the Future of Food Biotechnology prepared by the Royal Society of Canada, (Ottawa: January, 2001). 

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