One of the reports prepared for the 17th Session of FAO`s Committee on Agriculture, discussed on 3 April 2003, is entitled "Biosecurity in food and agriculture". The term
Biosecurity covers the introduction of plant pests, animal pests and diseases, and zoonoses, the introduction and release of GMOs and their products, and the introduction and management of invasive alien species and genotypes. The document is based on the outcome of a broad consultation process on
Biosecurity, which included an inter-agency meeting as well as an expert consultation in September 2002, specialised studies and bilateral interaction with interested bodies, and which culminated in an inter-governmental technical consultation in Bangkok in January 2003. See
http://www.fao.org/unfao/bodies/coag/coag17/coag17-e.htm (document COAG/2003/9 - in Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Spanish). In addition, the final report of the Bangkok consultation has recently been put on the web (see
ftp://ftp.fao.org/es/esn/food/tc_bangkok/tc_brm_report_en.pdf). For more information, contact
[email protected].
