Activity and a Role as a Supplier of Scientific
Information on GMO
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ILSI Japan Biotechnology Research Committee
was organized in 1989 on the occasion of organizing the International
Seminar on Biotechnology. Since its foundation, the Committee
organized many symposia and seminars , and also published several
books and reports which advocated domestic modern biotechnology.
In 2000, ILSI Japan contributed to organize successful meeting
of the Pre-Codex Symposium on Food Safety and Biotechnology
in Chiba, Japan. After then, ILSI Japan Biotechnology Research
Committee has continued series of international and domestic
symposium in which sciences were discussed to help regulatory
framework.
In 2010, the committee published "Present Knowledge in Genetically
Modified Foods ��". Many professors used the book at symposia
related to the 5th meeting of the conference of the parties
serving as the meeting of the parties to the Cartagena Protocol
on Biosafety (COP-MOP5). The book was edited by taskforce ERA(environmental
risk assessment). This taskforce is going to supply information
on environmental risk assessment by reports, homepage and symposia.
The committee has 3 taskforces. Those are ERA, Protein Allergenicity
and Biotechnology Methods. Taskforce Protein Allergenicity and
Taskforce Biotechnology Methods also held international symposia
and workshops. In 2010, Taskforce Biotechnology Methods held
"The Post Workshop of The 2nd plenary meeting of ISO/TC34/SC16
Horizontal Methods for Molecular Biomarkers Analysis".
ILSI Japan Biotechnology Research Committee has been playing
a key role as a supplier of scientific information on safety
and nutrition of GMO to disseminate good science. |
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