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Biology Documents: Companion Documents
for Directive 94-08,
Assessment Criteria for Determining
Environmental Safety of
Plants with Novel Traits
Biology documents are companion documents to Directive 94-08 (Dir94-08),
Assessment Criteria for Determining
Environmental Safety of
Plants with Novel Traits. A biology document is intended to provide
background information on the biology of a particular plant species, its centres
of origin, its related species, the potential for gene introgression from the
plant into relatives, as well as details on the life forms with which it
interacts. The conclusions drawn in a biology document only relate to plants
with no novel traits of the species in question.
Such species-specific information will serve as a guide for addressing some
of the information requirements of Part D of Dir94-08. Specifically, this
information will be used to determine whether there are significantly
different/altered interactions with other life forms resulting from a plant with
novel trait's (PNT) novel gene products, which could potentially cause the PNT
to become a weed of agriculture, become invasive of natural habitats, or
otherwise interact differently than their counterpart in the environment.
These documents are published by the Plant Biosafety Office. For further
information please contact:
Plant Biosafety Office
Plant Products Directorate
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
59 Camelot Drive
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0Y9
Telephone: (613) 225-2342
Facsimile: (613) 228-6629 |
