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Nigeria - President Goodluck Jonathan has signed the National Biosafety Agency Bill into law, according to the Director-General of the National Biotechnology Development Agency, Prof. Lucy Ogbadu.
Punch reported that the objectives of the law includes harnessing the potential of modern biotechnology under a legal regulatory regime; ensuring environmental, human and socio-economic safety, while harnessing the benefits associated with the practice of modern biotechnology and its outputs; and exercising the sovereign right over all the nation’s natural resources and authority to regulate access to such resources, among others.
“Modern biotechnology has been identified as an important tool that can help countries to achieve food sufficiency/food security, industrial growth, health improvement and environmental sustainability, while the Biosafety Act will give the legal framework to check the activities of modern biotechnology locally as well as imported GM crops into the country as well as providing an avenue to engage Nigerian scientists/experts from different fields to identify and pursue solutions to our local challenges.” she said.
#Nigeria #Jonathan
Punch reported that the objectives of the law includes harnessing the potential of modern biotechnology under a legal regulatory regime; ensuring environmental, human and socio-economic safety, while harnessing the benefits associated with the practice of modern biotechnology and its outputs; and exercising the sovereign right over all the nation’s natural resources and authority to regulate access to such resources, among others.
“Modern biotechnology has been identified as an important tool that can help countries to achieve food sufficiency/food security, industrial growth, health improvement and environmental sustainability, while the Biosafety Act will give the legal framework to check the activities of modern biotechnology locally as well as imported GM crops into the country as well as providing an avenue to engage Nigerian scientists/experts from different fields to identify and pursue solutions to our local challenges.” she said.
#Nigeria #Jonathan
