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GMO in PolandGMO in Poland
Challenges, Opportunities and RegulationsChallenges, Opportunities and Regulations
Janusz ZimnyBiotechnology and CytogeneticsPlant Breeding and Acclimatization InstituteRadzików, PolandCommittee of Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Janusz ZimnyBiotechnology and CytogeneticsPlant Breeding and Acclimatization InstituteRadzików, PolandCommittee of Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
WHAT IS THE USE OF CROP PLANTS
WHAT IS THE USE OF CROP PLANTS
For millenia plants have been used by humansnot only for :
food, fuel, fiber
For millenia plants have been used by humansnot only for :
food, fuel, fiber
but also as source of :medicines, dyes, athesives, lubricants and other industrial compounds
but also as source of :medicines, dyes, athesives, lubricants and other industrial compounds
CROP EVOLUTION AND HUMAN CIVILIZATION
CROP EVOLUTION AND HUMAN CIVILIZATION
• Humans Have Always Guided the Evolution of Crops!
• A small samples of wild plants were chosen and domesticated
• 10,000 years of Selection
• All crops we grow today were once wild plants. But no crop would survive in the wild any more
• Crops, strains and genes have moved around the globe
• Humans Have Always Guided the Evolution of Crops!
• A small samples of wild plants were chosen and domesticated
• 10,000 years of Selection
• All crops we grow today were once
Teosinte Hybrids Modern CornTeosinte Hybrids Modern Corn
wild plants. But no crop would survive in the wild any more
• Crops, strains and genes have moved around the globe
TheThe futurefuture
The major focus The major focus for the futurefor the future must be on sustainable must be on sustainable agriculture, which means that production per unit agriculture, which means that production per unit area area is is restricted to an amount that does not damage soilsrestricted to an amount that does not damage soils, , eliminate eliminate water supplies, cause extinction of wild relatives of crops or water supplies, cause extinction of wild relatives of crops or extinction of potential new extinction of potential new food food species, or lead to permanent species, or lead to permanent pollution pollution
PROGRESS IN AGRICULTUREPROGRESS IN AGRICULTURECrop YieldsCrop Yields
GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS HAVE MANY APPLICATIONS
GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS HAVE MANY APPLICATIONS
Scientificresearch tools in gene function studies Scientificresearch tools in gene function studies
PracticalImprovement of crop plantsPracticalImprovement of crop plants
• Higher yields• More nutritious food• Pharmaceutical proteins• Clean up environment• Industrial products• Value-added products
• Higher yields• More nutritious food• Pharmaceutical proteins• Clean up environment• Industrial products• Value-added products
BENEFITS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
BENEFITS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
Summary of likely commercial farm level impact of using Summary of likely commercial farm level impact of using GM technology (per hectare)GM technology (per hectare)
+55% to +82% with RR; +39% to +55% to +82% with RR; +39% to +88% with +88% with InvigorInvigor
+32% to +62%+32% to +62%
Other impactsOther impacts Improved quality: reduced impurity Improved quality: reduced impurity levels (both traits) and higher oil levels (both traits) and higher oil content (content (InvigorInvigor). Increased ). Increased management flexibility, scope for management flexibility, scope for using low/no tillageusing low/no tillage
Increased Increased management management flexibility and flexibility and better weed better weed controlcontrol
Graham Brookes, Andrzej Anioł. The farm level impact of using GM agronomic traits in Polish arable crops.2005.
Summary of likely commercial farm level impact of using Summary of likely commercial farm level impact of using GM technology (per hectare)GM technology (per hectare)
Yield Yield No expected impact: possibly small No expected impact: possibly small improvement improvement
+3% to +6%+3% to +6%
Variable costs of Variable costs of productionproduction
Grain maize: Grain maize: --7% to 7% to --9% with RR, 9% with RR, +2% to +9%; forage maize: +2% to +9%; forage maize: --7% to 7% to --14% with RR, zero to +8% with 14% with RR, zero to +8% with Liberty Link (LL) Liberty Link (LL)
+23% to +51% with RR; +23% to +51% with RR; --31% to 31% to +15% with LL+15% with LL
--6% to +14%6% to +14%
Other impactsOther impacts Increased management flexibility Increased management flexibility and better weed controland better weed control
Increased Increased management management flexibility, reduced flexibility, reduced production risk, production risk, lower levels of lower levels of mycotoxinsmycotoxins
Graham Brookes, Andrzej Anioł. The farm level impact of using GM agronomic traits in Polish arable crops.2005.
GMO SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND REGULATIONS
GMO SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND REGULATIONS
• GMO law
• Cultivation
• Field separation
• Transport and handling procedures
• Product labeling
• Research
• GMO law
• Cultivation
• Field separation
• Transport and handling procedures
• Product labeling
• Research
GMO SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND REGULATIONS
GMO SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND REGULATIONS
• Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety • to the Convention on Biological Diversity
• regulates the international trade of GMOs with those countries that haveratified the CPB. Regulations about information and approval proceduresshould ensure especially for developing countries that GM crops are not imported and grown without the knowledge of the national authorities. Like in other national and international regulations on biotechnology, thePrecautionary Principle is applied in the Protocol.
• The US, Canada, Australia and a number of other countries have not signed or ratified the CPB.
• Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety • to the Convention on Biological Diversity
• regulates the international trade of GMOs with those countries that haveratified the CPB. Regulations about information and approval proceduresshould ensure especially for developing countries that GM crops are not imported and grown without the knowledge of the national authorities. Like in other national and international regulations on biotechnology, thePrecautionary Principle is applied in the Protocol.
• The US, Canada, Australia and a number of other countries have not signed or ratified the CPB.
GMO LAW in EUGMO LAW in EU• Contained Use Directive 98/81/EC • Deliberate Release Directive 2001/18
• GMO Act is in force since 2001, together with implementing decrees, but at the moment undergoes second revision. According to proposed changes, it will still be possible formally to release GMOs into the environment and place GM products on the market.
GMO LAW in PolandGMO LAW in Poland
• Acts regulating GMO issues in Poland provide for a detailed and complex control of the GMO production and processing
• The control involves inter alia: risk assessment, quantitative and qualitative control of food, feed and other products.
• Consummers’ rights are also respected
GMO control laboratoryGMO control laboratory
GMO LAW in PolandGMO LAW in Poland
• However, the government issued its „framework position” concerning GMOs. According to this position, the government is against the deliberate release of GMOs into the environment, the introduction of GM products other than food and feed into the market and placing of GM food on the market, unless it is imported from outside or from EU and not being processed on Polish territory. The proposed changes also introduce new restrictions to the release of GMO in to environment.
GMO LAW in PolandGMO LAW in Poland
• According to the last revision of Seed Act,sowing material of GM varieties is not to be allowed for commercial use on the territory of the Republic of Poland.Genetically modified varieties are not to be registered in the national variety registry.
• Last revision of Feed Act introduced 2 years of vacatio legis for import and use of GM feed components.
Is GMO the Sole Answer to Global Food Problems?
• The curently proposed revision of the GMO Act introduces further restrictions to growing GM plants in Poland.
• The curently proposed revision of the GMO Act introduces further restrictions to growing GM plants in Poland.
EUROPEAN CORN BOREROstrinia nubilalis
EUROPEAN CORN BOREROstrinia nubilalis
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