People started to create GMOs to make production cheaper quickly and more precisely, and to improve the quality of products GMOs and their uses In a genetically modified organism (GMO), a characteristic of that organism has been altered by modern biotechnological methods. The first bacterium obtained in this way was created in 1971 in the United States. The first genetically modified (GM) plants...

This page provides information on biosafety experts from various countries.

This page provides an overview of projects and programmes implemented in various countries to increase national administrative capacity to deal with living modified organisms.

This page provides information on the risk assessments of GMOs carried out in various countries and relevant information on which GMOs and for what purposes (cultivation, marketing, etc.) have been authorised in those countries.

This page contains decisions and declarations relating to the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol by various countries. The search function can be used in English.

This page provides information on biosafety-related legislation in various countries. The search function can be used in English.

Here you will find the reports submitted by Estonia on the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol.

The objective of the Biosafety Clearing-House is to exchange information related to biosafety The Estonian Biosafety Clearing-House is part of a larger infrastructure for exchanging biosafety-related information between all countries that have acceded to the Cartagena Protocol [1]. The infrastructure has been set up under the Cartagena Protocol and is helpful to the parties in meeting the...

The need for biosafety was recognised as soon as the first GMO was created The term biosafety (sometimes also biological safety) has several meanings in Estonian. In a narrower sense, it means the prevention of diseases, poisonings, or allergies caused by biological organisms. This approach is used in the fields of food safety [1] and occupational health [2], as well as laboratory rules [3]...

Indigenous horticultural plants. How to keep them? Horticulture has become a science, and few have retained the knowledge and skills for growing food for themselves. Fortunately, there are a number of grandmothers who have been collecting vegetable seeds year after year, and so, many of the native plants grown in the farm gardens have survived. Horticulture in Estonia dates back to the beginning...