AgBiosafety: Why scientists can never prove that biotech crops are safe

ILSI: International Life Sciences Institute, Research Foundation Risk Science Institute, a global network of scientists devoted to enhancing the scientific basis for public health decision-making.

Belgian Biosafety Server: scientific aspects related to the biological safety (biosafety) of human activities carried out using pathogenic and/or genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) or microorganisms (GMM).

Science in Society: Public perceptions of risk, science and governance.

ICGEB: International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, theoretical training in the area of GMO biosafety.

University of Washington: public understanding of the issues associated with food safety, and discussion about the government's regulatory agencies application of the sciences of risk analysis and risk management.

EUFIC: EU Food Information Council, publication "quo vadis food risk communication?".

RiskWorld: Risk discussion groups are organized by topics: Ecology, Insurance and Risk, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Technology, Toxicology.

ABSP: Agricultural Biotechnology Support Group, environmental issues: benefits and risks of biotechnology in agriculture.

ACEPHALE: biotechnology and regulation

Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention: "Your Disease Risk" lets you find out your risk of developing five of the most important diseases and provides personalized tips for preventing them.

SRA: the Society for Risk Analysis provides an open forum for anyone interested in risk analysis

EPA: US Environmental Protection Agency, IRIS Database for Risk Assessment of human health effects that may result from exposure to various substances found in the environment.

Norwegian Computing Center: Risk Analysis, Risk Assessment, Risk Management, list of further links.

ERAP: Cornell, Environmental Risk Analysis Program. What are the Greatest Risks to the Environment?

EC Health and Consumer Protection: Speeches and presentations from (Dec 2003) conference "Risk Perception : Science, Public Debate And Policy Making"

Communicating Risk: EC funded project with information from training seminars, also see the useful section "Guidelines".

UK Resilience: The UK Government's aim is to reduce the risk from emergencies so that people can go about their business freely and with confidence. This website exists to provide a resource for civil protection practitioners, supporting the work which goes on across the UK to improve emergency preparedness.

The Crisisnavigator: an international Internet guide to crisis management, crisis communications, issues management, risk management, disaster management and business continuity management.

Quality-of-Life, Sustainability, & Other Environmental Indicators.: a factsheet lists resources about indices that prioritize other environmental, health and/or social risk and impact factors than pesticides.

Glossary of Risk Assessment-Related Terms: to assist users in understanding terms utilized by the U.S. EPA in hazard and dose-response assessments.

Fateallchem: Website of FP5 EC funded project that investigated environmental and human risk assessment of exploiting the fate and toxicity of allelochemicals (natural plant toxins) properties of crops in conventional and organic farming in relation to environment and consumer.

NERI: Danish National Environmental Research Institute, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Carries out monitoring and scientific consultancy as well as applied and strategic research to establish a scientific foundation for environmental policy. Research and advisory tasks include aspects concerning environmental risk assessment of genetically modified plants (GMP).

Bioethics Today: Provides information on bioethics, including aspects of plant genetic engineering covering genetically modifiefd (GM) crops, in terms of risks and benefits, legislation and major reports.

European Biosafety Association: aims to provide a forum for biosafety professionals to exchange experience, developments and issues in biosafety practices and regulation in a European context.

Risk and Safety Statements: is a system of hazard codes and phrases for labeling dangerous chemicals and compounds. The R/S statement of a compound consists of a risk part (R) and a safety part (S), each followed by a combination of numbers. Each number corresponds to a phrase. The phrase corresponding to the letter/number combination has the same meaning in different languages

RENO: a flexible platform for visualizing and dynamically analyzing and/or simulating organizational systems such as in the environment, risk, safety and hazard analysis.

GoldSim: vulnerability analysis focuses on identifying (and reducing) the vulnerability of engineered systems to both natural (e.g., weather-related) and man-made (e.g., sabotage, terrorism) disruptions.

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