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Biosafety Technical Series 07: Additional voluntary guidance materials to support case-by-case risk assessments of living modified organisms containing engineered gene drives
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- Biosafety Technical Series 07: Additional voluntary guidance materials ( Risk assessment; Engineered gene drives ) [ English ]
Table of contents: (1) Objective and scope; (2) Introduction; (3) Engineered gene drives; (4) General risk assessment considerations for living modified organisms containing engineered gene drives; (5) Recommendation of acceptability of risk and identification of risk management strategies; (6) Monitoring; and (7) Related issues.
Annexes: I (Further information on modelling); II (Further information on uncertainty); III (World Health Organization guidance framework for testing genetically modified mosquitoes; IV (Taxonomic classification of the Culicidae (mosquitoes)); V (Non-exhaustive list of mosquito vectors of diseases); VI (Current landscape for development of living modified mosquitoes containing engineered gene drives for disease vector control); VII (Engineered gene drive systems); and VIII (List of terms).
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Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish and Russian versions of Biosafety Technical Series 07 are forthcoming.
