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BookletTraining on Genetically Modified (GM) food safety assessment, risk communication and advocacies programme in Bhutan
Technical summary report
2018Also available in:
No results found.Upon the official request of the Royal Government of the Kingdom of Bhutan, a national training workshop entitled “training on genetically modified (GM) food safety assessment, risk communication and advocacies programme” was co-organized by the Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority (BAFRA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on 23 – 27 July 2018 in Thimphu, Bhutan. The objectives of the workshop were to provide: 1) an understanding of the relevant rules and regulations concerning GMOs and GM products in Bhutan; 2) an understanding of the internationally accepted principles of GM food safety assessment, risk management and risk communication and information on challenges involved in enacting these principles; 3) an understanding of the required expertise and types of experts for undertaking GM food safety assessments so that possible shortcomings in assessment capacity/resources in Bhutan could be identified; 4) hands-on experience in extracting relevant safety information from condensed GM food case studies and presenting the information in a simple and concise way; 5) general information about biosafety and biotechnology in the international arena with particular emphasis on communication; and 6) a way forward for BAFRA to conduct any suggested follow up activities. -
BookletTraining workshop on Bhutan Biosafety Clearing House and other biosafety repository tools including FAO GM Foods Platform
Technical summary report
2020Also available in:
No results found.In order to have information on biosafety and Bhutan’s obligation as a signatory to the Cartagena Protocol for Biosafety available to users and traders, the Bhutan biosafety clearing house (BBCH) was developed, but needed revamping to ensure functionality. With technical and financial support of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the tool was developed aligning to various global tools including FAO GM Foods Platform. After the development of the national tool, a training workshop entitled “Bhutan Biosafety Clearing House and other biosafety repository tools including FAO GM Foods Platform” was organized by FAO and BAFRA in Paro from 3-5 March 2020. The training was attended by forty-five (45) officials from BAFRA head office and field offices, Biosafety Technical Working Group members and participants from relevant stakeholders like Ministry of Health (MoH), Department of Forests and Park Services (DoFPS), National Environment Commission (NEC), Food Corporation of Bhutan (FCB), Karma Feed and National Seed Centre (NSC). The training focused on familiarizing the participants with the revamped BBCH and other biosafety information repositories. Both face-to-face and interactive online modules were used for the training and after group exercises and facilitated discussions, feedback from the workshop participants on improvement of the utility and feel of the revamped tool was provided to the training organizers. -
Book (stand-alone)Strengthening the capacity on Genetically Modified (GM) food safety assessment and communication in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia
FAO Technical summary report
2018Also available in:
No results found.Recently the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Secretariat has requested support from FAO as the main implementation partner in a programme aimed at facilitating intra-regional trade through harmonization of food safety regulations. The need has been particularly highlighted to implement a programme of trainings focusing on building an understanding of the scientific issues underlying current divergences on regulatory approaches used by COMESA Members in relation to commodities that are important to intra-regional trade. In the last decade, the development has allowed some of the COMESA countries to be engaged in a) research, 2) import or 3) production of Genetically Modified (GM) food products while the level of capacity in evaluating the relevant applications of GM foods are not uniformly conducted among different countries due to the different laws/regulations, procedures/protocols, and/or available expertise/experts. While environmental and socio-economic parameters can differ between countries, GM food safety assessment can be universally identical, following the same procedures of the relevant Codex Alimentarius Guidelines. In 2017 and 2018, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia have worked with FAO to take an approach to assess the status quo and to jointly develop capacity in terms of knowledge and resources. Each of the participating countries was found to be at a different level of proficiency for GM food safety assessment and risk communication, however several common areas for improvement have been identified across all countries visited. During the project, relevant trainings have been provided and they have successfully addressed some of these shortcomings. Further work needs have been identified by the respective participants and national roadmaps were developed for all three countries as one of the concrete outputs of this project. The project achieved a number of other outputs including significant commitment from all three countries to work together to strengthen GM food safety assessment through regional strategy, having the first GM food safety assessment result shared by Kenya to the FAO GM Foods Platform, and mutual exchange of policy documents which are in line with Codex Alimentarius. The outputs from each country were shared among all three countries and the project results have led to the development of a group/regional initiative that would take place in the future, with flexibility to welcome more countries from the region and the continent.
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