Risk Assessment Framework for Deliberate Environmental Release of Genetically Altered Organisms

这笔赠款的目的是为发展提供支持， 处理环境和健康风险的评估框架 与生物技术产品的故意释放有关。 尽管生物技术的销售和开发迅速增长， 评价转基因生物风险的指南 故意释放到环境中的物质是不存在的。 作为 因此，无论是政府还是私人机构都无法评估 对计划发布的分析是否充分， 因此，公众可能无法将风险 从现实的角度看生物技术。 拟议的项目要求研究人员评估一些 这些重要问题既涉及理论问题，也涉及应用问题， 引起了科学界的极大兴趣。 比如什么 生物体的特性是公众最关心的？ 需要考虑环境的哪些特征？ 如何 释放的规模和预期风险是否能在 有意义的术语？ 这些问题和相关问题的答案将基于 首先是评估过去的改性生物体排放情况， 对监管机构现行风险评估要求的分析 这一初步的信息库将被用作 制定一个改进的风险评估框架。

The purpose of this grant is to provide support for the development of an assessment framework addressing environmental and health risks associated with the deliberate release of biotechnology products. Despite rapid growth in biotechnology sales and development, accepted guidelines for evaluating the risks of genetically-altered organisms that are deliberately released into the environment do not exist. As a result, neither government nor private agencies are able to assess adequately whether the analysis of a planned release is thorough and competent, and the public therefore may be unable to place the risks of biotechnology within a realistic perspective. The proposed project requires the researchers to assess a number of important issues that involve both theoretical and applied questions of great interest to the scientific community. For example, what characteristics of the organism are of greatest concern to the public? What features of the environment need to be taken into account? How can the scale and anticipated risks of the release be described in meaningful terms? Answers to these and related questions will be based initially on the assessment of past releases of modified organisms and an analysis of the current risk assessment requirements of regulatory agencies; this initial information base then will be used as the basis for developing an improved risk assessment framework.