The National Biosafety Authority (NBA) is organizing the 13th Annual Biosafety Conference to be held in Naivasha Sub-County, Nakuru County in the next two and a half weeks under the theme "13 years later: Building trust and ensuring the safety of Genetically Modified Organisms".
The three-day conference is to provide a national platform for promoting public awareness and education on the role of modern biotechnology and biosafety.
Speaking to the Kenya News Agency (KNA) ahead of the conference, Acting Director of Biosafety Research and Compliance Josphat Muchiri said that the authority has been reaching out to the public to assure them that technologies they regulate, such as genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and also genomes, are safely deployed.
Muchiri said that there has been a lot of misinformation out there, especially on biotechnology products in the country, from many quarters, despite the authority which has been in place for 14 years trying to dispel many misconceptions The NBA mandate is to regulate GMOs; there has been a lot of misinformation and disinformation on GMOs without members of the public knowing that the government has established structures for assurance of safety.
