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Dear All,

Please use this thread to recommend additional background materials on "Risk Assessment of LMOs with Stacked Genes or Traits" to the SWG Chair as soon as possible but no later than 15 June 2010.

The SWG Chairs in consultation with the whole AHTEG will update the existing list of background materials linked to the document "Guidance on Risk Assessment of LMOs" no later than the 31 August 2010.

Thank you and best regards,
Manoela

Dear all,

I have not checked whether the following documents have already been referenced in the Stacked Traits document. They are mentioned as #205 - 207in the List of guidance materials available in the BIRC, that was tabled during the first session of the AHTEG. I would propose that they are added (if thay are not there yet) to the references in the Stacked Traits document.

205. Risk Assessment of Plants Containing Genetic Modification Events Combined by Crossing
Source / Year: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) / 2006.
Description: This document considers the risk assessment for the commercialization of crop plants containing genetic modification events combined by crossing. The cases likely to be presented for risk assessment will vary according to the type of crop or plant species on a case-by-case basis.
BIRC Record ID: 41973 (http://bch.cbd.int/database/record.shtml?id=41973).

206. Guidance document of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms for the Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Plants Containing Stacked Transformation Events
Source / Year: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) / 2007.
Description: This document provides guidelines with respect to the risk assessment under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 and Directive 2001/18/EC of genetically modified plants containing stacked transformation events. For the purpose of this document “stacked” events are defined as those combined by conventional breeding.
BIRC Record ID: 48484 (http://bch.cbd.int/database/record.shtml?id=48484)

207. Risk Assessment of “Stacked Events”
Source / Year:  Federal Ministry for Health, Family and Youth, Austria / 2007.
Description: This document provides a brief overview of the risk assessment requirements for “stacked events” proposed in guidance documents and in the scientific literature available at the time when this document was written. It provides a comparison of the proposals and approaches described in these documents was undertaken to identify potential areas of consent and dissent.
BIRC Record ID: 48492 (http://bch.cbd.int/database/record.shtml?id=48492).

Best regards,

Hans