SBC provides advice to companies, governments and expert bodies, European Union institutions, public research organisations and public interest NGOs that are shaping developments in modern biotechnology, life sciences and genomics. Besides project management and coordination skills SBC's areas of expertise are:

• Regulations and Risk Assessment
• Policy and Strategy Analysis
• Stakeholder Dialogue & Round Table
• Sustainability & Bio-ethics

Latest News

  Cisgenic GM plants as safe or risky as transgenic GM plants   27-7-2010
The report on the food and feed safety of cisgenic plant varieties from the Institute of Food Safety (RIKILT) has recently been sent to the Dutch Parliament.  From a food and feed safety perspective, the report concludes that there is no scientific basis for a general reduction of...

  NanoCode: European Code of Conduct for Nanotech   3-7-2010
NanoCode is a multistakeholder dialogue providing inputs to implement the European Code of Conduct for Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies Research, with support from the European Commission RT&D Framework Programme VII. The country report on The Netherlands, with a contribution from Piet...

  Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy & Environmental NGOs   19-5-2010
Together with Huib de Vriend from LIS Consult Piet Schenkelaars wrote an article in which they call upon environmental organisations to engage pro-actively in the 'bio-based economy'. This article was published in the magazine of Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Vereniging Milieudefensie). Its...