GMO Safety and Post Market Monitoring Panel Discussion
March 8th, MedUni Vienna
Chaired by Armin Spök, the panel speculated and debated what the future might hold for the post-market monitoring of genetically modified organisms. Photos attached.
Discussants:
- Dr. Armin Spök, Senior Researcher and Head of the Research Unit 'Modern Biotechnology' at IFZ – Inter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture
- Dr. Gerard Barry, Golden Rice Project Leader and Network Coordinator, International Rice Research Institute
- Dr. Yves Bertheau, Research Director at INRA, French National Institute for Agricultural Research
- Dr. Gerhard Flachoswky, Member of the European Food Safety Authority's Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms; Visiting Senior Scientist, Institute of Animal Nutrition in Braunschweig
- Dr. Helmut Gaugitsch, Head of Land Use and Biosafety unit at the Environment Agency Austria
- Dr. Richard Goodman, Research Professor, Food Science and Technology Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Dr. TJ Higgins, Honorary Research Fellow, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation of Australia
- Dr. Alan Kristal, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington, Associate Head of the Cancer Prevention Program at the Fred Hutchinson cancer Research Center
- Dr. Ashild Krogdahl, Professor of Animal Nutrition, Norwegian School of Veterinary Medicine
- Dr. Peadar Lawlor, Principal Research Officer, Pig Development Department, Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
Discussants: (from left to right) Alan Kristal, Peadar Lawlor, TJ Higgins, Richard Goodman, Armin Spök, Helmut Gaugitsch, Ashild Krogdahl, Yves Bertheau, Gerard Barry, Gerhard Flachowsky