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 :Provision of science-based arguments for political decisions<ref>[http://www.icgeb.org/~gmores/prod/partners.php BIOSAFENET: An EU-funded network of European scientists], Biosaferes, acc 21 Jan 2011</ref>
-BIOSAFENET works in partnership with the German biotech PR firm [[Genius]] (see below, Project partners), which has many biotech and agrochemical companies among its clients.
+BIOSAFENET works in partnership with the German biotech PR firm [[Genius]]<ref>BIOSAFENET, [http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gmo-compass.org%2Fpdf%2Fstories%2Fbiosafenet.pdf&ei=O2A5TceTFsmxhAfCo6ntCg&usg=AFQjCNExpKltEV4BHwBgGfrOuROAVb9GQg&sig2=2lbq-tpe7_SgekXILHdCvw Driving biosafety research on GM plants], undated, accessed 21 Jan 2011</ref> (see below, Project partners), which has many biotech and agrochemical companies among its clients.
 ==Project partners==

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 However, BIOSAFENET's economic agenda is clear. It says of its aim to disseminate "robust public information on the biosafety research conducted on genetically modified (GM) plants" that
 :Such research and its comprehensive, enlightening results often have been relegated to a subordinate role or ignored altogether in long-standing debates on the safety of transgenic crops. This situation hampers the ambition of the European Union to become the most competitive and dynamic science-based (bio-)economy of the world.<ref>[http://www.icgeb.org/~gmores/prod/partners.php BIOSAFENET: An EU-funded network of European scientists], Biosaferes, acc 21 Jan 2011</ref>
 BIOSAFENET works in partnership with the German biotech PR firm [[Genius]] (see below, Project partners), which has many biotech and agrochemical companies among its clients.

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 :robust public information on the biosafety research conducted on genetically modified plants. BIOSAFENET and other European initiatives contribute to the bundling of biosafety knowledge from various EU research programmes and from existing European GMO biosafety networks.<ref>BIOSAFENET, [http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gmo-compass.org%2Fpdf%2Fstories%2Fbiosafenet.pdf&ei=O2A5TceTFsmxhAfCo6ntCg&usg=AFQjCNExpKltEV4BHwBgGfrOuROAVb9GQg&sig2=2lbq-tpe7_SgekXILHdCvw Driving biosafety research on GM plants], undated, accessed 21 Jan 2011</ref>
-BIOSAFENET is headed by Professor [[Joachim Schiemann]].<ref>BIOSAFENET, [http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gmo-compass.org%2Fpdf%2Fstories%2Fbiosafenet.pdf&ei=O2A5TceTFsmxhAfCo6ntCg&usg=AFQjCNExpKltEV4BHwBgGfrOuROAVb9GQg&sig2=2lbq-tpe7_SgekXILHdCvw Driving biosafety research on GM plants], undated, accessed 21 Jan 2011</ref> It works in partnership with the German biotech PR firm [[Genius]] (see below, Project partners), which has many biotech and agrochemical companies among its clients.
+BIOSAFENET is headed by Professor [[Joachim Schiemann]].<ref>BIOSAFENET, [http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gmo-compass.org%2Fpdf%2Fstories%2Fbiosafenet.pdf&ei=O2A5TceTFsmxhAfCo6ntCg&usg=AFQjCNExpKltEV4BHwBgGfrOuROAVb9GQg&sig2=2lbq-tpe7_SgekXILHdCvw Driving biosafety research on GM plants], undated, accessed 21 Jan 2011</ref>
 Schiemann claims "the project is not pro or con genetically modified organisms."<ref>BIOSAFENET, [http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gmo-compass.org%2Fpdf%2Fstories%2Fbiosafenet.pdf&ei=O2A5TceTFsmxhAfCo6ntCg&usg=AFQjCNExpKltEV4BHwBgGfrOuROAVb9GQg&sig2=2lbq-tpe7_SgekXILHdCvw Driving biosafety research on GM plants], undated, accessed 21 Jan 2011</ref>
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 However, BIOSAFENET's economic agenda is clear. It says of its aim to disseminate "robust public information on the biosafety research conducted on genetically modified (GM) plants" that
 :Such research and its comprehensive, enlightening results often have been relegated to a subordinate role or ignored altogether in long-standing debates on the safety of transgenic crops. This situation hampers the ambition of the European Union to become the most competitive and dynamic science-based (bio-)economy of the world.<ref>[http://www.icgeb.org/~gmores/prod/partners.php BIOSAFENET: An EU-funded network of European scientists], Biosaferes, acc 21 Jan 2011</ref>
 ==Project partners==

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 :robust public information on the biosafety research conducted on genetically modified plants. BIOSAFENET and other European initiatives contribute to the bundling of biosafety knowledge from various EU research programmes and from existing European GMO biosafety networks.<ref>BIOSAFENET, [http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gmo-compass.org%2Fpdf%2Fstories%2Fbiosafenet.pdf&ei=O2A5TceTFsmxhAfCo6ntCg&usg=AFQjCNExpKltEV4BHwBgGfrOuROAVb9GQg&sig2=2lbq-tpe7_SgekXILHdCvw Driving biosafety research on GM plants], undated, accessed 21 Jan 2011</ref>
-BIOSAFENET is headed by Professor [[Joachim Schiemann]].<ref>BIOSAFENET, [http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gmo-compass.org%2Fpdf%2Fstories%2Fbiosafenet.pdf&ei=O2A5TceTFsmxhAfCo6ntCg&usg=AFQjCNExpKltEV4BHwBgGfrOuROAVb9GQg&sig2=2lbq-tpe7_SgekXILHdCvw Driving biosafety research on GM plants], undated, accessed 21 Jan 2011</ref>
+BIOSAFENET is headed by Professor [[Joachim Schiemann]].<ref>BIOSAFENET, [http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gmo-compass.org%2Fpdf%2Fstories%2Fbiosafenet.pdf&ei=O2A5TceTFsmxhAfCo6ntCg&usg=AFQjCNExpKltEV4BHwBgGfrOuROAVb9GQg&sig2=2lbq-tpe7_SgekXILHdCvw Driving biosafety research on GM plants], undated, accessed 21 Jan 2011</ref> It works in partnership with the German biotech PR firm [[Genius]] (see below, Project partners), which has many biotech and agrochemical companies among its clients.
 Schiemann claims "the project is not pro or con genetically modified organisms."<ref>BIOSAFENET, [http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gmo-compass.org%2Fpdf%2Fstories%2Fbiosafenet.pdf&ei=O2A5TceTFsmxhAfCo6ntCg&usg=AFQjCNExpKltEV4BHwBgGfrOuROAVb9GQg&sig2=2lbq-tpe7_SgekXILHdCvw Driving biosafety research on GM plants], undated, accessed 21 Jan 2011</ref>

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−	The Biosafety Research Communication Network ([[BIOSAFENET]]) is a pro-GM lobby network that says its goal is to offer	+	The [[Biosafety Research Communication Network]] ([[BIOSAFENET]]) is a pro-GM lobby network that says its goal is to offer
	:robust public information on the biosafety research conducted on genetically modified plants. BIOSAFENET and other European initiatives contribute to the bundling of biosafety knowledge from various EU research programmes and from existing European GMO biosafety networks.<ref>BIOSAFENET, [http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gmo-compass.org%2Fpdf%2Fstories%2Fbiosafenet.pdf&ei=O2A5TceTFsmxhAfCo6ntCg&usg=AFQjCNExpKltEV4BHwBgGfrOuROAVb9GQg&sig2=2lbq-tpe7_SgekXILHdCvw Driving biosafety research on GM plants], undated, accessed 21 Jan 2011</ref>		:robust public information on the biosafety research conducted on genetically modified plants. BIOSAFENET and other European initiatives contribute to the bundling of biosafety knowledge from various EU research programmes and from existing European GMO biosafety networks.<ref>BIOSAFENET, [http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gmo-compass.org%2Fpdf%2Fstories%2Fbiosafenet.pdf&ei=O2A5TceTFsmxhAfCo6ntCg&usg=AFQjCNExpKltEV4BHwBgGfrOuROAVb9GQg&sig2=2lbq-tpe7_SgekXILHdCvw Driving biosafety research on GM plants], undated, accessed 21 Jan 2011</ref>

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 ==Funding==
+BIOSAFENET was previously funded with EU public money.<ref>BIOSAFENET, [http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gmo-compass.org%2Fpdf%2Fstories%2Fbiosafenet.pdf&ei=O2A5TceTFsmxhAfCo6ntCg&usg=AFQjCNExpKltEV4BHwBgGfrOuROAVb9GQg&sig2=2lbq-tpe7_SgekXILHdCvw Driving biosafety research on GM plants], undated, accessed 21 Jan 2011</ref> As at January 2011 it is unclear whether this funding continues.
 ==Contact==
 :Professor Joachim Schiemann