Protokol Cartagena
zairi muhammad
aku dok baca tentang GM-food (genetically modified food), GMO, LMO dll. ni semua berkaitan dgn bioteknologi.
amerika pro GM-food tapi EU anti. EU kata GM-food comes with health safety issues.
buat masa la ni nampak gayanya EU menang. Protokol Cartagena telah digunakan dgn berjaya oleh EU dimana objektif protokol tersebut ialah utk memastikan tahap safety ke atas penggunaan bioteknologi diambilkira oleh setiap negara.
isu beras GM dari amerika 2 tahun lepas menjadi hangat di seluruh dunia. byk negara yg mengimpot beras dari Amerika stop impot sebab takut beras Amerika dicemari dgn beras jenis GM.
asasnya, la ni byk negara takut nak guna GM-food. tapi di sebelah sudut lain pulak GM-food telah dikenalpasti sebagai salah satu kaedah yg perlu utk menangani isu makanan dunia di masa depan.
sedikit sebanyak pertembungan pendapat berkaitan GM-food [yg ada kaitan langsung dgn bioteknologi] aku rasa telah mempengaruhi perkembangan bioteknologi dlm bidang pemakanan khususnya.
mungkin ada sapa2 yg boleh highlight kita semua dlm hal ini.
rasanya di malaysia ni pun ramai yg dok kelip-pok kelip-pok bila ada org cakap pasai bioteknologi. kalau dah tak paham mcm mana nak ceburkan diri dlm bidang bioteknologi ni. dengar kata bajet besar & tak digunakan dgn sepenuhnya.
kalau lah ada sapa2 yg dpt nagi penjelasan dgn cara ringkas & mudah berkenaan bioteknologi ni, barulah selepas ini ramai antara kita yg akan berminat menceburi bidang bioteknologi ni.
yg ni tau laa ... "the term biotechnology refers to the use of living organisms or their products to modify human health and the human environment"
ZAIRI
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Isa Majid
The Cartagena Protocol is a multilateral instrument meant to ensure that the Living Modiied Organisms (LMO) arising from modern biotechnology would be contained from damaging the natural environment especially the natural flora in any country. Since the issue was on the safety of the natural biodiversity against such newly-introduced modified organisms, the protocol is also known as the biosafety protocol.
An excerpt of the Biosafety Protocol from Wikepedia is as follows:
"The Biosafety Protocol seeks to protect biological diversity from the potential risks posed by living modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology.
The Biosafety Protocol makes clear that products from new technologies must be based on the precautionary principle and allow developing nations to balance public health against economic benefits. It will for example let countries ban imports of a living modified organism if they feel there is not enough scientific evidence the product is safe and requires exporters to label shipments containing genetically altered commodities such as corn or cotton."
As the above notion is operated on the basis of precautionary principles, the method of exploiting these LMOs in agriculture can only be done through modern agriculture practices in well contained and designated areas unlike the normal agricultural practices in open fields that we see in Malaysia nowadays. If such LMOs is to be fully exploited by the local farmers, there is a need for dismantling the fundamentals under the Biosafety Protocol and to introduce the LMOs to the rakyat as wide as possible with the assumption that these LMOs are variants of the natural crops with superior qualities that will ensure good returns from the agricultural activities. From the standpoint of the researchers working in this field, the nawaitu, to me, is that God has created many resources for us to see the beauty of HIS creation and considering the different variables that we see scientifically like the outputs from different plant strains, it would be upon us to examine further the creation of God through the manipulation of the plant materials so as to maximise the benefits for us as well as bringing us closer to God.
On the other hand, if we look at recombinant technology being used in the medical field like the production of insulin for the treatment of diabetes from a recombinant microorganism , we very gladly accept the technology as beneficial to mankind just because by producing insulin through this method, we can get insulin to treat diabetes and overcome at the same time the issue of non-halal insulin extracted from porcine (babi) for Muslims or the non-acceptance of insulin extracted from bovine (lembu) by the Hindus.
The final analysis, to me, on the technology and products being created so far in biotechnology has been "pro-people friendly" but the stumbling block has been the refusal of the civil society or interest groups in the developed countries to make sure that the benefits of such technology be made available to the masses. I admit that I could be wrong in taking this stand but as long as the rationality is being discussed further, the benefits to be provided by biotechnology is enormous. It is our believe at MOSTI, Malaysia that biotechnology can feed, heal, fuel and clean the world.
Wallahualam.
Salam semua
Isa.
shukor mohd
output, hasil dan pengeluaran bukanlah segala galanya apabila kita
bercakap tentang makanan.Banyak faktor lain seperti kesihatan kita
tukang makan nih, kesihatan habitan sekeliling yang tumpang menerima
akibat limpahan buangan secara sengaja atau tidak.Lebah2 juga punyai
hak atas tanaman yang kita tanam.Begitu jugak keluang ,serangga yang
selama ini begitu tekun membantu dalam proses pendebungaan dan tak
ketinggalan jugak monyet monyet yang terlibat mambantu menyebarkan
propagating planting materials ke flora dan fauna berhampiran.
Kesemua komponen ini punyai hak keatas peranan kita sang khalifah
diatas muka bumi ini.
Kalau dilihat pada pandangan dari beberapa pengkritik GMF ni seperti
yang dikaitkan dengan kemerosotan lebah di Germany dan US dalam
penghasilan madu sungguh meyakinkan.
On 19/05/2008, Isa Majid <isa....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Salam Zairi,
>
> The Cartagena Protocol is a multilateral instrument meant to ensure that the
> Living Modiied Organisms (LMO) arising from modern biotechnology would be
> contained from damaging the natural environment especially the natural flora
> in any country. Since the issue was on the safety of the natural
> biodiversity against such newly-introduced modified organisms, the protocol
> is also known as the biosafety protocol.
>
> An excerpt of the Biosafety Protocol from Wikepedia is as follows:
>
> "The Biosafety Protocol seeks to protect biological diversity from the
> potential risks posed by living modified organisms resulting from modern
> biotechnology.
>
> The Biosafety Protocol makes clear that products from new technologies must
> be based on the precautionary
> principle<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle>and
> allow developing nations to balance public health against economic
> benefits. It will for example let countries ban imports of a living modified
> organism<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Living_modified_organism&action=edit&redlink=1>if
> they feel there is not enough scientific evidence the product is
> safe <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe> and requires exporters to label
>> buat masa la ni nampak gayanya EU menang. *Protokol Cartagena* telah
>> digunakan dgn berjaya oleh EU dimana objektif protokol tersebut ialah utk
>> memastikan tahap safety ke atas penggunaan bioteknologi diambilkira oleh
>> setiap negara.
>>
>> isu beras GM dari amerika 2 tahun lepas menjadi hangat di seluruh dunia.
>> byk negara yg mengimpot beras dari Amerika stop impot sebab takut beras
>> Amerika dicemari dgn beras jenis GM.
>>
>> asasnya, la ni byk negara takut nak guna GM-food. tapi di sebelah sudut
>> lain pulak GM-food telah dikenalpasti sebagai salah satu kaedah yg perlu
>> utk
>> menangani isu makanan dunia di masa depan.
>>
>> sedikit sebanyak pertembungan pendapat berkaitan GM-food [yg ada kaitan
>> langsung dgn bioteknologi] aku rasa telah mempengaruhi perkembangan
>> bioteknologi dlm bidang pemakanan khususnya.
>>
>> mungkin ada sapa2 yg boleh highlight kita semua dlm hal ini.
>>
>> rasanya di malaysia ni pun ramai yg dok kelip-pok kelip-pok bila ada org
>> cakap pasai bioteknologi. kalau dah tak paham mcm mana nak ceburkan diri
>> dlm
>> bidang bioteknologi ni. dengar kata bajet besar & tak digunakan dgn
>> sepenuhnya.
>>
>> kalau lah ada sapa2 yg dpt nagi penjelasan dgn cara ringkas & mudah
>> berkenaan bioteknologi ni, barulah selepas ini ramai antara kita yg akan
>> berminat menceburi bidang bioteknologi ni.
>>
>> yg ni tau laa ... "*the term biotechnology refers to the use of living
>> organisms or their products to modify human health and the human
>> environment
>> *"
>>
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Azmai Ishak
