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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Jeremy Bruton Sweet
Jeremy Bruton Sweet, Ph.D.
is an environmental consultant and vice-chairman of the European Food Safety Authorities’ GMO panel.
Jeremy Sweet studied agriculture and plant pathology at university acquiring a Ph.D. in plant virology from Bristol University. He worked at Long Ashton Research Station for nine years on virus diseases of fruit and other woody plants and spent one year at Massey University in New Zealand. He joined NIAB and has spent the last 20 years conducting research on the risk assessment of GMOs developing considerable expertise in this area. Much of this work has been studying environmental and agronomic impacts and gene flow to crops and wild relatives. He was coordinator of the UK BRIGHT project which studied herbicide tolerance, its management and impact in crop rotations containing HT oilseed rape and beet. He was also coordinator of the European Science Foundation programme ‘Assessing the Impact of GMOs’ that brought together all the major research groups in this area in Europe. He was a coordinator of the EU SIGMEA project which was responsible for collating and analysing data on gene flow and gene impacts from across Europe and developing predictive models. He is a participant in the EU COEXTRA programme studying coexistence of GM and non-GM crops and has participated in numerous coexistence studies.
He is currently an independent scientific consultant and vice-chairman of the EFSA GMO panel. He provides advice on GMOs to the European Commission, FAO, and to governments, scientific academies and agencies in several countries.
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