Briefing Papers

prepared by the Task Group on Public Perceptions of Biotechnology:

1. Patenting life (1993); 2nd edition: Patenting in Biotechnology (1996)
2. Biotechnology in foods and drinks (1994);
3. The application of human genetic research (1995);
4. Environmental biotechnology (1995);
5. Dealings with the Media (1996);
6. What´s what in Biotechnology? (1997);
7. Dialogue in Biotechnology (1998);
8. Lessons from the Swiss biotechnology referendum (1998);
9. Biotechnology Legislation in Central & Eastern Europe (1999);
10. Antibiotic Resistance Markers in Genetically Modified (GM) Crops (2001);
11. Biodiversity: the Impact of Biotechnology (2001);
12. GM Crop Market Dynamics: the example of Soya Beans (2002).

Opinion Papers

prepared by the Section on Applied Functional Genomics (former Working Party on Applied Molecular Genetics)

• Future of Microbiology in Europe (1995);
• Microbial Diversity (1995);
• DNA Diagnostics and Gene Therapy (1996).

Review Papers

"Safe Biotechnology" Series
prepared by the Task Group on Safety in Biotechnology

1. General considerations (1985);
2. The classification of microorganisms causing diseases in plants (1987);
3. Safety precautions for handling microorganisms of different risk classes (1989);
4. Recommendations for safety levels for biotechnological operations with microorganisms that cause diseases in plants (1992);
5. Recommendations for safe work with animal and human cell cultures concerning potential human pathogens (1993);
6. Safety assessment, in respect of human health, of microorganisms used in biotechnology (1995);
7. Classification of microorganisms on the basis of hazard (1996);
8. Transport of infectious and biological materials (1997);
9. Values in risk assessment for environmental application of microorganisms (1999).

"Made by Genetic Engineering" Series
prepared by the Section on Applied Functional Genomics (former Working Party on Applied Molecular Genetics)

Made by Genetic Engineering articles are re-published here on-line by kind permission of Elsevier Science, publishers of Journal of Biotechnology in which this series of articles are published. Such provision is made on the basis that further copies are not made for systematic distribution. For further information contact the Publishing Editor at c.cherrington@elsevier.nl.

1. A lipase for detergents and a vaccine against Hepatitis B (1991)
2. Human insulin and human growth hormone (1992)
3. Interferon-alfa and Protein G (1992)
4. AIDS diagnostics by use of recombinant antigens and a new desizing shows the changing nature of enzyme production (1995)
5. Erythropoietin and Interferon beta-1b (1995)
6. Interferon gamma and rabies vaccine (1996)
7. Tissue plasminogen activator and Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (1998)
8. Coagulation factor VII and Folicle stimulating hormone (1998)
9. Alzheimer tau test and Detergent cellulase (1998)
10. Chymosin and Phytase (1999)
11. Glucocerebrosidase and Lyme disease vaccine (2000)
12. Glucagon and LH (2000)

Books, proceedings

ECB 6 - Proceedings of the 6th European Congress on Biotechnology
Florence, Italy, 13 - 17 June 1993
Elsevier Science B.V. (1994), Part I and II
ISBN 0-444-89992-8

Recovery of Bioproducts
Study Report of the Working Party on Downstream Processing and Recovery of Bioproducts
SCI (June 1993), 130 pages
ISBN 0-901001-79-1
To be obtained from: SCI Publications Department, 14/15 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PS, UK; Fax: +44(0)171 823 1698, E-mail: books@chemind.demon.co.uk

Applied Biocatalysis
edited by J.M.S. Cabral, D. Best, L. Boross, J. Tramper
harwood academic publishers (May 1994)
ISBN 3-7186-5391-5

"Dialogue in Biotechnology" - Report on the Workshop on 20 April 1998 in Brussels
Published by the EFB Task Group on Public Perceptions of Biotechnology (1998)
ISBN 90-76110-04-2

Biotechnology in the Public Sphere: A European Sourcebook
edited by John Durant, Martin W Bauer and George Gaskell
Published by Science Museum London (1998)
ISBN 1 900747 09 X

Biotechnology in Public: DNA and the Quality of Life
Report of the Conference, 2-4 December 1998, Vienna (with UNIDO)
Published by the Task Group on Public Perceptions of Biotechnology

Ethical Aspects of Agricultural Biotechnology
Published by the EFB Task Group on Public Perceptions of Biotechnology (1999). ISBN 90-76110-05-0

Handling Scientific Uncertainty in European Environmental Decision-Making
Report of the Seminar, 17-18 April 2000, London (with Green Alliance and the Economic and Social Research Council, UK). Published by the Task Group on Public Perceptions of Biotechnology.

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