What information should be required on shipments of LMO-FFPs?: Analyzing options under Article 18.2.a of the Biosafety Protocol

Gruère, Guillaume P.; Rosegrant, Mark W.

What information should be required on shipments of LMO-FFPs?: Analyzing options under Article 18.2.a of the Biosafety Protocol

Autores

Gruère, Guillaume P.

Rosegrant, Mark W.

Editor

International Food Policy Research Institute

Descripción

This brief summarizes the potential economic effects of making mandatory the voluntary stringent information requirements adopted in 2006 under Article 18.2.a of the Biosafety Protocol. This would require all traded shipments containing living modified organisms intended for direct use as food, feed, or for processing (LMO-FFPs) to be accompanied by a list of all present genetically modified (GM) events.