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Update of Argentina’s Regulatory Policies on the Environmental Risk Assessment

The Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) of genetically modified (GM) crops in Argentina is carried out by the National Advisory Commission on Agricultural Biotechnology (CONABIA) and the Innovation and Biotechnology Coordination (CIyB). Both have a large experience with this assessment, since 1991,...

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Autores principales: Vesprini, Facundo, Whelan, Agustina Ines, Goberna, María Florencia, Murrone, Mariana Lucía, Barros, Gabriela Evangelina, Frankow, Andrés, Godoy, Perla, Lewi, Dalia Marcela
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8841517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35174149
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2021.834589
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author Vesprini, Facundo
Whelan, Agustina Ines
Goberna, María Florencia
Murrone, Mariana Lucía
Barros, Gabriela Evangelina
Frankow, Andrés
Godoy, Perla
Lewi, Dalia Marcela
author_facet Vesprini, Facundo
Whelan, Agustina Ines
Goberna, María Florencia
Murrone, Mariana Lucía
Barros, Gabriela Evangelina
Frankow, Andrés
Godoy, Perla
Lewi, Dalia Marcela
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description The Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) of genetically modified (GM) crops in Argentina is carried out by the National Advisory Commission on Agricultural Biotechnology (CONABIA) and the Innovation and Biotechnology Coordination (CIyB). Both have a large experience with this assessment, since 1991, when CONABIA was created. The continuous support to biotechnology as a state policy and as part of the decision to encourage developers in the regulatory process has helped make progress in the revision of the regulations. The experience gained during the last 30 years and the worldwide scientific advances supported the bases to update the regulatory framework. Focusing on the biosafety strengthening and the improvement of the applicant’s experience in the GM crops evaluation process, during 2020 and 2021, the ERA went through a reviewing process. Some important modifications were made, such as (i) the assessment of stacked GM crops with focus on the possible interactions between transgenes and the expression products, (ii) the strengthening of the ERA taking into account the transportability of data and conclusions from the Confined Field Trials (CFTs), (iii) the adoption of Familiarity and History of Safe Use (HOSU) concepts on the risk assessment of the expression products, (iv) the special considerations for the unintended effects of insertional sites, and (v) as a post commercial release of GM crops, the Insect Resistance Management Plan (IRMP) was reformulated. These novel approaches enhance the ERA; they make it more efficient by applying the science criteria and the accumulated experience and scientific bibliography on the topic.
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spelling pubmed-88415172022-02-15 Update of Argentina’s Regulatory Policies on the Environmental Risk Assessment Vesprini, Facundo Whelan, Agustina Ines Goberna, María Florencia Murrone, Mariana Lucía Barros, Gabriela Evangelina Frankow, Andrés Godoy, Perla Lewi, Dalia Marcela Front Bioeng Biotechnol Bioengineering and Biotechnology The Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) of genetically modified (GM) crops in Argentina is carried out by the National Advisory Commission on Agricultural Biotechnology (CONABIA) and the Innovation and Biotechnology Coordination (CIyB). Both have a large experience with this assessment, since 1991, when CONABIA was created. The continuous support to biotechnology as a state policy and as part of the decision to encourage developers in the regulatory process has helped make progress in the revision of the regulations. The experience gained during the last 30 years and the worldwide scientific advances supported the bases to update the regulatory framework. Focusing on the biosafety strengthening and the improvement of the applicant’s experience in the GM crops evaluation process, during 2020 and 2021, the ERA went through a reviewing process. Some important modifications were made, such as (i) the assessment of stacked GM crops with focus on the possible interactions between transgenes and the expression products, (ii) the strengthening of the ERA taking into account the transportability of data and conclusions from the Confined Field Trials (CFTs), (iii) the adoption of Familiarity and History of Safe Use (HOSU) concepts on the risk assessment of the expression products, (iv) the special considerations for the unintended effects of insertional sites, and (v) as a post commercial release of GM crops, the Insect Resistance Management Plan (IRMP) was reformulated. These novel approaches enhance the ERA; they make it more efficient by applying the science criteria and the accumulated experience and scientific bibliography on the topic. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8841517/ /pubmed/35174149 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2021.834589 Text en Copyright © 2022 Vesprini, Whelan, Goberna, Murrone, Barros, Frankow, Godoy and Lewi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Goberna, María Florencia
Murrone, Mariana Lucía
Barros, Gabriela Evangelina
Frankow, Andrés
Godoy, Perla
Lewi, Dalia Marcela
Update of Argentina’s Regulatory Policies on the Environmental Risk Assessment
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title_sort update of argentina’s regulatory policies on the environmental risk assessment
topic Bioengineering and Biotechnology
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