Risk assessment of conventional crop plants in analogy to transgenic plants

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 89-93

  Torgersen, Helge ^a   Soja, Gerhard ^b   Janssen, Ines ^c   Gaugitsch, Helmut ^d  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

^c Institute for Applied Ecology   (Austria)

^d ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Conventional crop plants, risk assessment, EU Directive 94 15 EC; Environmental risk assessment, conventional plants, EU Directive 94 15 EC; EU Directive 94 15 EC, risk assessment, conventional crop plants; Gene transfer, EU Directive 94 15 EC; Transgenic plants, risk assessment, EU Directive 94 15 EC

Indexed keywords

CROP; CULTIVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CROP PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 0031861103     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02986393     Document Type: Article

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