Symposium on Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Crops in Mexico
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March 2, 2011-March 3, 2011
Mexico City, Mexico
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The Agriculture & Food Systems Institute’s Center for Environmental Risk Assessment and ILSI Mexico convened the Symposium on Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Crops in Mexico in cooperation with the Government of Mexico, AgroBIO Mexico and the Agricultural Biotechnology Stewardship Technical Committee. The purpose of the symposium was to bring regulators, academic scientific advisers and industry scientists together to discuss the current status of regulations in Mexico and concepts of problem formulation to facilitate environmental risk assessment. The symposium was provided in Spanish.
The symposium featured sessions on:
- Regulation and Environmental Risk Assessment for GM plants in Mexico
- Problem Formulation in Environmental Risk Assessments
- Case Studies for Problem Formulation of GM plants in Mexico