lesson 7.3

• issues and concerns: genetic engineering techniques, health risks, GMOs and human rights, occupational exposure
• It identifies and evaluate the potential hazards in GE experiments, formulation and review of national policies on biosafety and guidelines in risk assessment

  National Committee on Biosafety of the Philippines
• Originally issued under E.O 430 issued by Pres. Corazon Aquino in the year 1990.


  National Committee on Biosafety of the Philippines
• Shall lead in ensuring that the best available science is used and applied in the adoption of biosafety

  Department of Science and Technology
• Shall be in charge of addressing biosafety issues related to the country’s agricultural productivity and food security

  Department of Agriculture
• primarily responsible for the conservation, management, development, and proper use of the country’s environment and natural resources

  Department of Environment and Natural Resources
• shall formulate guidelines in assessing the impacts on health posed by modern biotechnology and its applications.

  Department of Health
• shall be in charge of evaluating and monitoring processed food derived from or containing GMOs

  Department of Health
• Shall participate in promoting and protecting Philippine interests on biosafety in bilateral, regional, and multilateral forums.

  Department of Foreign Affairs
• Shall participate in relation to biosafety decisions that have an impact on trade, intellectual property rights, investments, and consumer welfare and protection

  Department of Trade and Industry
• Shall participate in relation to biosafety decisions which have a specific impact on indigenous peoples and communities

  National Commission on Indigenous People
• shall participate in relation to biosafety decisions which have an impact on the autonomy of local government units.

  Department of Interior and Local Government
• tasked to evaluate and monitor the biosafety aspects of their biological research

  Institutional Biosafety Committee
• Biosafety Guidelines: guidelines for contained facility test, for field tests, for commercialization
• refers to any operation, undertaken within a facility, installation, or other physical structures

  Guidelines for Contained Facility Test
• refers to the guidelines set to any intentional introduction into the environment of a regulated article that passed the contained use and confined test for the purpose of research and development

  Guidelines for Field Tests
• This refers to guidelines set for commercial propagation defined as the delivery for introduction into commerce

  Guideline for Commercialization