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Glen Kurokawa, Darryl Macer
Biosafety Regulation Trends in Southern and Southeastern Asia
Introduction
Biosafety is becoming an ever increasingly important issue as more varieties and greater numbers of living modified organisms (LMOs) move across territorial boundaries. The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is a multilateral environmental agreement (MEA) that, at its core, attempts to strike a balance between trade interests in biotechnology and protection of biological diversity. Article 1 of the Protocol succinctly summarizes its objectives: “to contribute to ensuring an adequate level of protection in the field of the safe transfer, handling and use of living modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology that may have adverse effects on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, taking also into account risks to human health and specifically focusing on transboundary movements”.
Journal of International Biotechnology Law, Walter de Gruyter
Print ISSN: 1612-6068
Volume: 2, 09/2005
Pages: 177 - 184