African countries urged to speed up the passage of biosafety legislations

28 Mar 2011
African countries have been urged to speed up with their biosafety legislations to allow capacity building in modern biotechnology application. "The capacity building should include stewardship that would allow for safe quality product development," Professor Walter Alhassan, Coordinator, Project on Strengthening Capacity for Safe Biotechnology Management in Sub-Saharan Africa (SABIMA), said when launching the 2010 Global Status Report on Commercialised Biotechnology and Genetically Modified (GM) Crops in Accra.

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