Joint open letter of COGEM and ZKBS on the need for a specific environmental risk assessment of medicinal products with samRNAs The Netherlands Commission on Genetic Modification (COGEM) and the German Central Committee on Biological Safety (ZKBS) sent a joint open…
Position Statement of the ZKBS on the European Commission's proposal for a regulation on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed, and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/625 Initial situation Proposal of the European Commission Position…
On the Identifiability of Genome Editing in plants - Commentary of the ZKBS on Y. Bertheau (2019) Conlusion In spring 2019 the article „New Breeding Techniques: Detection and Identification of the Techniques and Derived Products” by Yves Bertheau was published in the…
Publication cannot fulfil promise of identifying genome-edited plants Conclusion In their article of 7 September 2020, Chhalliyil and colleagues [1] present a method in the journal Foods that is supposed to allow the identification of genome-edited crops. The authors…
Mirror Bacteria Comment by the ZKBS on the publication by Adamala et al. (2024) on hazards to humans, animals, plants and the environment from the production of so-called mirror bacteria The Central Committee on Biological Safety (ZKBS), represented by the Working…
ZKBS Commentary on Mirror Bacteria Published on: 22. September 2025 The ZKBS has published a commentary on the publication by Adamala et al. (2024) on the dangers to humans, animals, plants and the environment posed by the production of so-called mirror bacteria. You…
Comment on Mirror Bacteria Adamala et al. 2024 The commentary by Adamala et al. (2024) entitled ‘Confronting risks of mirror life’ caught the attention of the ZKBS as part of its ongoing monitoring of Synthetic Biology. The ZKBS now has a separate section on mirror…
Continuous monitoring of Synthetic Biology What is new in Synthetic Biology research? Highlights of Synthetic Biology monitoring Monitoring of Synthetic Biology from 2018 to 2025 What is new in Synthetic Biology research? The annual number of publications with new…
Animals Statements on animals A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A AquAdvantage Salmon (2011) (not accessible) [PDF, 116 KB] R Recombinant DNA into animals (1994) (not accessible) [PDF, 32 KB] Further statements by the ZKBS General subjects Animals…
