Genetically Modified Organisms - information sources

This page contains links to sources of HSE information and guidance on genetically modified organisms.

Free leaflets

• Contained use of genetically modified organisms
• Contained use of genetically modified organisms - excluding information for the public register

Publications

• HSC Consultation - Proposals for the genetically modified organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2005
• A guide to the Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 2000
• The ACGM Compendium of Guidance
• Infections at work publications

Guidance

• Disclosure of Notified Data for GMO's and the FOI Act
• The Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2005
• Sealability of Microbiological Containment Level 3 and 4 Facilities

Articles Published in ACGM Newsletters

Notifications

• Fees
• Notification Forms
• Guidance on connected programmes and the updating of notifications to
  indicate significant and other changes
• Notifying accidents
• Updating Centre contact details
• A checklist to avoid the most common mistakes in notifications
• Administrative and other changes to notified information
• Confidentiality and disclosure of notified data (NB This has now been superseded by : Disclosure of Notified Data for GMO's and the FOI Act)
• Derogations - Most common errors
• Excluding information from the public register
• Guidance on derogation for autoclave facilites for containment level 3 laboratories
• Interim guidance on connected programmes

Risk assessment

• Format for risk assessment of GMMs
• European risk assessment guidance
• Interim guidance on RA GMMs eliciting altered immune response
• Incidents - Lessons to be learnt from a laboratory-acquired vaccinia virus infection

Technical

• Guidance on BL21
• Inactivation of waste through off-site incineration

General

• European and international activities related to the contained use of genetically modified organisms
• New Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations (2002) - What the amendments to the biological agents provisions mean for you

Advisory Committees

Advisory Committee on Genetic Modification (ACGM) and Scientific Advisory Comittee on Genetic Modification

• Scientific Advisory Committee on Genetic Modification

ACGM Newsletters

• ACGM Newsletter No 32, June 2003
• ACGM Newsletter No 31, August 2002
• ACGM Newsletter No 30, November 2001

N.B. Except for the latest edition the newsletters in this section are not necessarily current information. Any links or URLs contained within some of the older newsletter may no longer work, and some of the pages referred to may no longer be extant.

ACGM Reports

• ACGM Fourth annual report (December 2003) [154kb]
• ACGM third annual report (March 2002) [60kb]
• ACGM second annual report (March 2001) [80kb]
• ACGM first annual report (March 2000) [60kb]

Public Register

• Description of the Public Register