Best Practice in the Design of GM Crops

where she has continued an outstanding career in research and teaching across many disciplines including molecular genetics. She is leading exponent of a new science of the organism, which has implications for holistic health and sustainable systems, and is currently visiting Professor of Biophysics in University of Catania, Sicily. She became scientific advisor to the Third World Network in 1994, and co-founded the Institute of Science and Society in 1999 to promote social accountability of science and science for sustainability. Her written materials on genetic engineering and related issues (including a best-selling book) have been translated into many languages; and have been used by public interest organisations all over the world in submissions to their governments and posted on many websites. She has participated in numerous debates, lectures, and interviews for radio, TV, newspapers and magazines in close to 30 countries around the world. She has more than 200 publications including 10 books. in 1972. His involvement in environmental issues dates from 1968 in a range of issues including mercury, asbestos and PCB and pesticide pollution, along with waste sites and incinerators. His critiques of genetic modification began in 1988, when he encountered the power of multinational corporations over the federal government, and the refusal of corporations to undertake serious risk evaluations. Dr. Cummins has appeared in many public lecture and debates, and has been invited to make submissions to the Canadian and US Governments. He and has published over 200 scientific and popular articles. His most recent papers appeared in Nature Biotechnology, The Ecologist, and Biotechnology and Development Review. where he specialised in the genetic control of anthocyanin (flower pigment) synthesis in Antirrhinum majus (snapdragon). In 1990, he was awarded a PhD from the University of East Anglia for this research. Since 1991, he has worked in computing, but has remained very interested in biology. The introduction of GM crops into the UK renewed his interest in Genetics in 1998, and he has taken part in many public debates since. His other current interests include sustainable methods of agriculture and food production both in the UK and abroad. One of the main 'enabling technologies' considered in the document is the 'control of gene expression', dubbed 'terminator technology' by its critics, that genetic engineers seed or pollen to be sterile. A consultation exercise is simultaneously taking place in the United States by the US Department of Agriculture, on 'terminator' patents …