Plantas Transgênicas de Algodão, Soja e Feijão Resistência a

LA BIOLOGÍA Y LA EVOLUCIÓN EN EL
SIGLO XXI
Percepción Pública: el reto de comunicar y comprender
la nueva tecnología
Francisco J. L. Aragão
Embrapa/Cenargen, Brazil
[email protected]
Tomate como uma planta tóxina
1781 Thomas Jefferson usava tomates juntamente com
batatas fritas.
George Washington Carver, Alabama.
1820 Coronel Robert Gibbon Johnson anunciou que
comeria 1 bushel no dia 26 de setembro, na corte de
Boston.
Alfred Wallace (1823-1913)
Charles Darwin (1809 -1882 )
(1822-1884)
Gregor Mendel
Fevereiro de 1865, Sociedade de História Natural de Brünn
Genética no melhoramento de Plantas?
Vavilov
X
Lisenko
(1911-1943)
Desde 1982
Outubro, 2000 (Holanda) “Suas alfaces permanecem boas
e frescas porque nós colocamos genes de ratos nelas. Bom
apetite !”
Fonte: Chrispeels MJ, Sadava D (2004) Plants, Genes and Crop Biotechnology. Am. Soc. Plant Biologistis.
Brazilian Legislation on Biosafety of
Genetically Modified Organisms
Low Nr. 8,975 January 1995
“First Brazilian Biosafety Law”
Low Nr. 11,105 March 2005
“Brazilian Biosafety Law”
Decree Nr. 6,925, August 2009
Cartagena Protocol of Biosafety to the Convention on
Biotech Diversity
Decree Nr. 5,591,
November 2005
CTNBio
Normative Resolutions
Normative Instructions
CTNBio
Communications
Brazil´s
President
Minister and Chief to
the President
National Biosafety
Council (CNBS)
National Biosafety
Technical Commission
(CTNBio)
CNBS composed by Ministers of State
Chief of Staff to the President
Science & Technology
Agrarian Development
Agriculture,
Justice
Health
Environment
Industry & Commerce
Foreign Affairs
Defense
Fisheries & Aquiculture
National Biosafety
Technical Commission
(CTNBio)
CTNBio is Composed by
54 members =
27 full + 27 substitutes
All members must have
Ph.D. degree
Twelve public acknowledged specialists in Science & Technology
3 Specialists in human health
3 Specialists in animal health
3 Specialists in plant sciences
3 Specialists in environment
One representative of each ministry
Science and Technology (MCT)
Agrarian Development (MDA)
Agriculture (MAPA)
Health (MS)
Environment (MMA)
Industry and Commerce (MDIC)
Foreign Affairs (MRE)
Defense (MD)
Fisheries and Aquiculture (MPA)
One specialist in (indicated by Ministries)
Consumer´s right (M. justice)
Health (MS)
Environment (MMA)
Biotechnology (MAPA)
Family agriculture (MDA)
Worker´s health (M. Labour)
Labeling law
Decree Nr. 4,680 (April 2003)
Threshold of 1% (species and modification)
.
,
http://www.marklynas.org/2013/01/lecture-to-oxford-farming-conference-3-january-2013/
,
"If we knew what it was we
were doing, it would not be
called research, would it?"
-- Albert Einstein