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  • 11-03-2025

    Reply on the EFSA the risk assessment of micro­organisms used in the food chain

    On December 2nd 2024, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) released its “Draft g...

  • 27-11-2024

    Risk Classification of Organisms: Pathogenicity classification of (a)pathogenic bacteria (Update November 2024)

    The Netherlands Commission on Genetic Modification (COGEM) advises the Dutch governme...

  • 11-10-2023

    Classification of Organisms: Pathogenicity classification of Bacteria. Status October 2023

    NOTE: This list has been updated in 2024 (see CGM/241127-02). The Netherlands Commiss...

  • 18-09-2023

    Establishment and proliferation potential of cyanobacteria; properties that can inform the risk assessment

    COGEM is often asked to assess whether GM cyanobacteria could pose a risk when they w...

  • 25-10-2021

    Risk Classification of Organisms: Pathogenicity classification of bacteria. Status: October 2021

    NOTE: This list has been updated in 2023 (see CGM/231011-01).   The Netherlands ...

  • 13-10-2021

    Taxonomy and risk classification of algae; Informing the risk classification of a dynamic taxonomic group

    Over the last years, COGEM has been asked several times to classify algae and cyanoba...

  • 23-10-2019

    Transmission of antibiotic resistance genes via mobile genetic elements

    Activities with organisms modified with antibiotic resistance genes that jeopardise t...

  • 12-11-2018

    Update of the bacterial taxonomy in the classification lists of COGEM

    COGEM is regularly asked to advise on the pathogenicity classification of microorgani...

  • 29-09-2017

    Classification of Organisms: Pathogenicity classification of bacteria. Status: September 2017

    The Netherlands Commission on Genetic Modification (COGEM) advises the Dutch governme...