The FAO e-mail conference entitled "Regulating GMOs in developing and transition countries", which began on 28 April, finished on 1 June 2003. There was a large number of excellent contributions, covering a wide breadth of key issues such as why developing countries need regulations covering GMOs, what kinds of regulations they should be, what risks should be assessed within the regulatory framework, how GMOs should be regulated compared to conventional crops and whether economic aspects should be included in the GMO regulatory framework. Roughly 400 people registered for this moderated conference, posting a total of 93 messages. Messages came from people in 19 different countries, with highest numbers from the United States, India, South Africa, Canada and Australia respectively. Half of the messages came from people living in developing countries. The messages are available at http://www.fao.org/biotech/logs/c9logs.htm or can be requested as a single e-mail (size 154 KB) from [email protected].

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