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Iran's Biosafety Clearing House:
Guidelines
This site is under construction

National Guidelines

The preparation of National Biosafety Guidelines for the Islamic Republic of Iran is under progress. The current work has been partly based on an existing national guideline that has some shortcomings which are being considered by a team of experts. These guidelines can be downloaded, fully in their Farsi version, and partly in their English version from Iran Biosafety Database .

European Community

• Biosafety Resources (References from the Belgian Biosafety Server )
• EC Guidance document to facilitate notifiers in the preparation of plant GMO dossiers for consideration by the Scientific Committee on Plants (SCP/GMO/103-Final) - (1998)
• EC Preliminary Guidance document on the information needed for the risk assessment of genetically modified plants and derived food and feed (PDF File) (2002)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

• OECD Guidance for the Designation of a Unique Identifier for Transgenic Plants (2002)
• OECD Biotechnology Consensus Documents (comprise technical information for use during the regulatory assessment of products of modern biotechnology)
• OECD Consensus Documents for the work on the Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds
• Other OECD publications in the field of Harmonization of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology

Other international organisations

• UNEP International Technical Guidelines for Safety in Biotechnology (Full text on-line)
• BINAS DTree : Decision Support System for Safety Assessment of Genetically Modified Crop Plants
• AGBios GM Database : Information on GM approved products
• Transgenic Crops - An introduction and resource guide : information and links to other resources on the technology and issues surrounding transgenic crops

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