Melbourne, Australia
September 23, 2009
The 2009 Genetically Modified Crops Coexistence Conference (GMCC’09) will address the issue of GM and non-GM coexistence across the entire agricultural supply chain. Day one of the conference will be devoted to logistical challenges of coexistence, including legal frameworks and technical challenges for GMO analysis.
HIGHLIGHTS
GMCC-09 is excited to announce the workshop on the logistical challenges related to cost effective GMO analysis relevant to market requirements along the food and feed production chains will be led by Guy Van den Eede, Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, Italy, Yves Bertheau, INRA Research Unit for Plant Pathology and GMO Detection Methods, France and Kerry Emslie, National Measurement Institute, Australia. This session will address the complex interaction technical, economic and regulatory issues in detail. Attention will be given to the issue of the current zero tolerance of low level presence of non-approved events in Europe, complexity and costs of detection of stacked genes, reference materials and standards for testing and the practicalities of uniform global standards.
A session on legal frameworks for coexistence will be chaired by Bernhard Koch, Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute of Tort Law, University of Innsbruck and Stuart Smyth, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Contrast will be drawn between different legal frameworks that currently exist to govern coexistence while identifying common themes and efforts for greater harmonisation. This workshop will provide insight into how Europe and European states have approached the challenge of establishing frameworks for coexistence including presentations by Manual Gomez Barbero, EU Commission, Mathias Boysen, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Justo Corti-Varela, Universite Paris and Thijs Etty, Vrije Univesisteit Amsterdam.
FULL PROGRAM
GMCC-09 will be held from 10 – 12 November 2009 at the Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre, Australia. The Conference will have more than 30 presentations, for which full papers are currently being submitted and 30 invited speakers representing 21 countries worldwide.
Further speaker details and an updated conference program can be located on the conference website http://www.gmcc-09.com/program-2/.
For further information on GMCC-09 please visit www.gmcc-09.com
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