Future Perspectives for Biosafety in Brazil | Juniper Publishers

Future Perspectives for Biosafety in Brazil by Luiz Antonio Barreto de Castro | Juniper Publishers

The Biosafety legislations were paramount for the development of Biotechnology in Brazil. I became familiarized with the theme as a consultant for the World Bank that demanded that Brazil had available guidelines in this area to celebrate a contract with Brazil in the area of Science and Technology. I elaborated the Biosafety Guidelines for the PADCT/ Biotechnology that became effective in 1986, very much using subsidies that were available in the Guidelines produced by the NIH after the Asilomar Conference during the seventies. We had no Biosafety Lawin Brazil until the Law 8974 [1] was enacted in January of 1995.The law called for the establishment of CTN Bio-Technical National Commission of Biosafety. As National Secretary for Research and Development at the Ministry of Science and Technology I established the first CTN Bioteam and was President of the Commission from 1996 till 1999. During this period Brazil approved in 1998 the first genetically modified plant, the soybean RR presented by the Monsanto Company After this approval Brazil experienced the most aggressive campaign against GMOS that brought together NGOs like the Greenpeace to team with the Judiciary.

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