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Amman together with [[CS Prakash]] and others, Amman signed an 'Open Letter to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development'{{ref1}} (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."  
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Amman together with [[CS Prakash]] and others, Amman signed an 'Open Letter to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development'{{ref|1}} (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''.
 
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.

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Activities

Amman together with CS Prakash and others, Amman signed an 'Open Letter to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development'[1] (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.

References

  1. Template:Note1 http://www.agbioworld.org/biotech-info/pr/uncom.html