From 2008 to 2011 the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
(BMBF) will once again be funding a large number of biosafety research projects.
The funding amounts to around €8 million.
The main focus of the 23 projects is to develop
methods to prevent a spread of genetically modified plants. Another focus of the
projects is further research into the environmental impacts of genetically
modified Bt maize.
Hinner Köster:Feed safety
parameters as part of food safety is nowadays the highest priority when we
evaluate feed quality. Nutritional, technical and emotional quality of feed used
to be the highest priority and remains important for common industry policy,
however, it is now of lesser importance then feed safety. Even developing
countries are no longer isolated but part of a global world and are therefore
partially regulated by universally established control systems at all stages of
production and in all sectors of their industry.Read more...