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The Working Party on Safety in Biotechnology of the European Federation of Biotechnology has proposed a classification of microorganisms that cause diseases in plants. In this paper appropriate safety levels are proposed for these classes of microorganisms in order to ensure that research, development and industrial fermentation work with plant pathogens will limit the risk of outbreaks of diseases in crops that could result from work with such microorganisms when they are cultivated in laboratories, glasshouses and biotechnology installations.
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President of the European and Mediterranean Organization for Plant Protection (OEPP)
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Co-opted: J. Dähne, J. Drozd, M. Lemattre, I. M. Smith Footnote 1, E. M. A. Waterschoot
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Frommer, W., Archer, L., Boon, B. et al. Safe biotechnology (4). Recommendations for safety levels for biotechnological operations with microorganisms that cause diseases in plants. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 38, 139–140 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00174457
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00174457