WEEK 10 -- Mar. 31

Lecture: From a linear paradigm to a participatory paradigm for biosafety decision making

Discussion:

Readings due Week 11:
All: Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology 2001. Guide to U.S. Regulation of Genetically Modified Food and Agricultural Biotechnology Products. 29pp. http://pewagbiotech.org/resources/issuebriefs.

1 Reading per student for jig-saw discussion (* denotes it is online or pdf on course website):

o Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants, Chapter 3, pp. 101-120; skim Chapter 4 focusing on pharmaceutical maize case (pp. 123-126).

o Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants, Chapter 5, pp.167-191.

o *Pew Initiative. 2003. Pharming the Field: A Look at the Benefits and Risks of Bioengineering Plants to Produce Pharmaceuticals. Workshop Proceedings. July 2002. http://pewagbiotech.org/events/0717/ConferenceReport.pdf

o *Gurian-Sherman, D. 2003. Holes in the Biotech Safety Net. FDA policy does not assure the safety of genetically engineered foods. Center for Science and the Public Interest, Washington, D.C., 26pp. http://www.cspinet.org/new/pdf/fda_report__final.pdf

o Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology 2003. Future Fish Chapters 4-5, pp. 37-60. For detail, see: Kapuscinski (unpubl.) Genetically modified fish in the U.S., pp.35-67 and Table 2.

o Animal Biotechnology, Chapter 7, pp.108-121 (focus on policy & institutional).

o *The Center for Food Safety. 2003. Coalition to Sue U.S. Department of Agriculture over Biotech Crops Containing Pharmaceuticals. Press release: http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/inthenews/GEPPV60dayPressRel.pdf AND Notice of Intent to sue: http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/facts&issues/GEPPV60daysFinal.pdf

Due Week 12: Annotated bibliography 4 on national regulation for group case -see further description under Week 11.