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Pharma-Planta
An
online community dedicated to a science-based, medically-oriented public dialogue
on plant-made pharmaceuticals and their potential to help combat
life-threatening illnesses.
An
online resource for plant-made pharmaceuticals and industrials, including news,
background information, literature, patents, and resources for farmers
interested in growing pharmaceutical crops.
A
non-profit organization that aims to disseminate information and to support the
emergence of a manufacturing sector using plant factories to produce
biopharmaceuticals, industrial products and other useful molecules.
Regulatory authorities
EMEA – The European Medicines Agency, which oversees the regulation of
all new pharmaceutical products for human and veterinary use within the EU, as
well as new production
technologies. Click current
guidelines to see EMEA’s second draft of the
guidance document on the quality of biological active substances produced by
stable transgene expression in higher plants (opens in new window). Consultations
on this document were invited by EMEA and have been submitted by Pharma-Planta.
The consultation period concluded on 31st March 2007.
EFSA – The European Food Safety Authority, which also advises on the
use of genetically-modified plants as production platforms for non-food
products. Several members of Pharma-Planta sit on the EFSA
self-tasking working group
focusing on the above.