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Klaus Amman is Director of the Botanical Garden, University of Bern, Switzerland.  
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Klaus Amman is Director of the Botanical Garden, University of Bern, Switzerland. Amman together with [[John Beringer]], [[Julian Kinderlerer]], [[Alan McHughen]] and [[Mark Tepfer]], founded the [[International Society for Biosafety Research]] (ISBR).  Amman is an editor of ''Environmental Biosafety Research'', the journal published by the ISBR.  
  
With [[John Beringer]], [[Julian Kinderlerer]], [[Alan McHughen]] and [[Mark Tepfer]], Amman formed the International Society for Biosafety Research, whose journal, Environmental Biosafety Research, he edits.  
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==Affiliations==
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*The [[European Science Foundation]] group -- board member
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*[[Assessment of Impacts of Genetically Modified Plants]] (AIGM) -- board member
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*[[Gensuisse]], a GM promotion group funded by the pharmaceutical industry body
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*[[Interpharma Internutrition]] - a lobbying group for GM foods funded/sponsored by the food industry (e.g. Nestle) and chemical/GM companies [[Monsanto]], [[Hoffmann LaRoche]], [[DuPont]], and [[Syngenta]] -- board member
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*[[European Federation of Biotechnology]] an organisation of scientists wishing to promote biotechnology, which has an extensive [http://www.efbweb.org/who/organi1.htm corporate membership] -- Executive Board
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*[http://webm.powerparcel.com/domains/premiumtraffic.php?domain=bio-scope.org Bio-Scope] -- co-editor; (it is a Frankfurt-Bern website, supported by GM industry group [http://www.europabio.org/ Europabio]).  
  
He sits on steering committees for the following groups:
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==Activities==
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Amman together with [[CS Prakash]] and others, Amman signed an 'Open Letter to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development' (April 2000). The letter warned the Commission against 'needless over-regulation' of GM on the grounds of "the very real threat that an overly-strict adherence to precautionary regulation could pose to both the environment and to the well being of human populations around the world."
  
The [[European Science Foundation]] group, [[Assessment of Impacts of Genetically Modified Plants]] (AIGM) [[Gensuisse]], a GM promotion group funded by the pharmaceutical industry body [[Interpharma Internutrition]] - a promotion group for GM foods. It has in its working group representatives from the food industry (e.g. Nestle) as well as chemical/GM companies [[Monsanto]], [[Hoffmann LaRoche]], [[DuPont]], and [[Syngenta]].
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Amman edits a pro-GM e-mail list and played a leading role together with [[CS Prakash]] in circulating and encouraging the attacks on Quist and Chapela and their paper on Mexican maize contamination published in ''Nature''.
 
 
He is on the Executive Board of the [[European Federation of Biotechnology]], an organisation of scientists wishing to promote biotechnology, which has an extensive [http://www.efbweb.org/who/organi1.htm corporate membership].
 
 
 
Amman is co-editor of the [http://webm.powerparcel.com/domains/premiumtraffic.php?domain=bio-scope.org Bio-Scope] Frankfurt-Bern website, supported by GM industry group [http://www.europabio.org/ Europabio].
 
 
 
With [[CS Prakash]] and others, Amman signed an 'Open Letter to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development' (April 2000). The letter warned the Commission against 'needless over-regulation' of GM on the grounds of "the very real threat that an overly-strict adherence to precautionary regulation could pose to both the environment and to the well being of human populations around the world."
 
 
 
Amman edits a pro-GM e-mail list and played a leading role together with [[CS Prakash]] in circulating and encouraging the attacks on Quist and Chapela and their paper on Mexican maize contamination published in Nature.
 

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Klaus Amman is Director of the Botanical Garden, University of Bern, Switzerland. Amman together with John Beringer, Julian Kinderlerer, Alan McHughen and Mark Tepfer, founded the International Society for Biosafety Research (ISBR). Amman is an editor of Environmental Biosafety Research, the journal published by the ISBR.

Affiliations

Activities

Amman together with CS Prakash and others, Amman signed an 'Open Letter to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development' (April 2000). The letter warned the Commission against 'needless over-regulation' of GM on the grounds of "the very real threat that an overly-strict adherence to precautionary regulation could pose to both the environment and to the well being of human populations around the world."

Amman edits a pro-GM e-mail list and played a leading role together with CS Prakash in circulating and encouraging the attacks on Quist and Chapela and their paper on Mexican maize contamination published in Nature.