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This publication constitutes the proceedings of the OECD conference on the “Environmental Uses of Micro-Organisms: An Overview of the State-of-the-Art and Implications for Biotechnology Risk/Safety Assessment”. This event, organised under the auspices of OECD’s Working Group on the Harmonisation of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology (WG-HROB), was held on 26-27 March 2012. A total of 100 participants attended the conference, which was open to OECD delegates as well as external scientists, regulators and interested individuals. It was developed in collaboration with the OECD Co-operative Research Programme under the Trade and Agriculture Directorate.
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Micro-organisms including bacteria and viruses are probably best known as pathogens causing disease in plants, man and other animals. At the same time, many microbial species also play a fundamental role in the functioning of the environment, being instrumental, for instance, in mineralization processes, nitrogen fixation and an array of other geochemical processes. Life on earth would not be possible without micro-organisms and the services that they provide.
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