Exchanging information on safe handling and risk management for biotechnology

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

Agenda 21 recommends assistance in exchanging information on procedures required for safe handling and risk management and on conditions of release for biotechnology products.

1. Making the world a safer place
2. Facilitating access to biotechnology information
3. Exchanging information
4. Cooperating internationally on biotechnology safety

1. Providing public information on benefits and risks of biotechnology
2. Establishing quality standards for biotechnology applications
3. Developing guidelines on safety procedures for biotechnology

1. Advancing biotechnology

1. Unsafe
2. Risk-aversion
3. Risk
4. Mismanagement
5. Misinformation
6. Mishandling
7. Information
8. Disinformation
9. Deformation