Meeting report of the OECD conference on “Genome Editing: Applications in Agriculture—Implications for Health, Environment and Regulation”

Abstract

The “OECD Conference on Genome Editing: Applications in Agriculture—Implications for Health, Environment and Regulation” was held on the 28–29 June 2018 at the OECD headquarter and conference centre in Paris, France. It brought together policy makers, academia, innovators and other stakeholders involved in the topic, in order to take stock of the current technical developments and implementations of genome editing, as well as their applications in various areas of agriculture and the implications they give rise to (More information on the “OECD Conference on Genome Editing: Applications in Agriculture—Implications for Health, Environment and Regulation” can be found on the OECD Genome Editing hub: http://www.oecd.org/environment/genome-editing-agriculture/; the hub also contains the detailed conference programme, the biographies of all conference speakers, the detailed conference abstracts, and the presentations of the two-day conference). The conference aimed to provide a clearer understanding of the regulatory considerations raised by products of genome editing, pointing towards a coherent policy approach to facilitate innovations involving genome editing.