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 ...