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BSR � Business for Social Responsibility - UN Body Calls for Thorough Monitoring of GM Crops To Assess Risks and Benefits: "According to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the 'adoption of rigorously designed monitoring programs' to determine both the risks and benefits of released GM crops could be the key to 'generating the necessary knowledge to protect agro-systems, rural livelihoods and broader ecological integrity.' The FAO believes that 'responsible deployment' of genetically modified (GM) crops 'needs to comprise the whole technology development process, from the pre-release risk assessment to bio-safety consideration and post-release monitoring.' The organization says it is willing to facilitate the monitoring process, including compiling existing data from disparate sources. According to Europe Information Service, the FAO hopes the collected data will be used to inform 'policies and regulation, but mainly will give producers informed options in order to allow technologies to be adopted in a sustainable way.'"