WEEK 7 -- Mar. 3

Group Activity: Application of the Manual to your group case - complete the process and improve supporting documentation (90 min.).

Assignment Note: Synthesis Paper 1 (due Week 10) should include a completed Manual worksheet with write-up of supporting documentation.

Lecture: From "risk" to "safety": System Accidents; overview of Safety First Elements (50 min.)

Group Activity: Identify points to consider in designing "safety criteria" (20 min.)

Readings due Week 8:
All: ISEES. 2002. Safety First: Making it a Reality for Biotechnology Products. Final Report of the First Meeting of the Executive Advisory Board and Steering Committee of the Safety First Initiative. 17 pp. ISEES http://www.fw.umn.edu/isees. (hard copy distributed in class.)
Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants, Chapter 6, pp.192-219.**

Kapuscinski et al. 1999. Adaptive biosafety assessment and management for aquatic genetically modified organisms in the environment. In Towards Policies for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Aquatic Genetic Resources, focus on monitoring, aquatic genetic integrity areas, genetic marker registry pp. 239-241.**
** Animal and plant groups read both - cross-fertilization of ideas is critical for this topic.

Due Week 8: Draft outline of Synthesis Paper 1, identifying person responsible for each section.