Sub-working Group on RA&RM of Living Modified Mosquitoes

Dear LMM SWG members and invited guests,

As informed by Manoela and the AHTEG Chair, there will be very little time to discuss the Guidance Documents during the AHTEG meeting in April, and this is the last opportunity to make substantial modifications on the LMM Guidance draft.

New texts have been added to this new draft, based on the contributions receiveed during the last Real Time Conferences. Thus, I encourage you to take some time to revise it one more time.

I would like to ask your special attention to the support bibliography list that complements the Guidance Document. I have made an extensive list that needs improvement. I ask you all, but in particular our expert guests to, please, help me to make a relevant and useful list of scientific papers and guidance documents that will provide support to the regulators in the risk assessment and risk management of LM mosquitoes. 

During next week I will revise the document in order to incorporate your comments and submit them to the Secretariat by 21 March. Since our invited guests received the new drafts only yesterday, I will extend the deadline for your submissions to Tuesday, 16 March, at midnight (Brazilian time is three hours behind Central European Time).

Your contributions will be greatly appreciated.

With best regards,
Eliana

Eliana,

I seem to be having trouble uploading the Fu et al paper. Here is the pubmed link:


Female-specific flightless phenotype for mosquito control.

Fu G, Lees RS, Nimmo D, Aw D, Jin L, Gray P, Berendonk TU, White-Cooper H, Scaife S, Kim Phuc H, Marinotti O, Jasinskiene N, James AA, Alphey L.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Mar 9;107(10):4550-4. Epub 2010 Feb 22.
PMID: 20176967 [PubMed - in process]
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