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Until his retirement Prof [[Ingolf Schuphan]] chaired the Institute for Environmental Research at the RWTH Aachen.<ref>"[Bt maize pollen outside of maize fields does not pose a threat to butterflies]", GMO Safety website, 2 April 2008, accessed 7 July 2009</ref> From 1992-2000, research fellow Bartsch conducted field trials with GM sugar beets from the seed company [[KWS]].<ref>"[http://www.biosicherheit.de/pdf/proceedings99/15Bartsch.pdf Wissenschaftliche Begleitung von Freilandversuchen mit Rhizomania-resistenten Zuckerrüben]", BMBF-Statusseminar, Braunschweig 1999, pp. 65, 66</ref><ref>KWS website is at: http://www.kws.de/</ref>  
 
Until his retirement Prof [[Ingolf Schuphan]] chaired the Institute for Environmental Research at the RWTH Aachen.<ref>"[Bt maize pollen outside of maize fields does not pose a threat to butterflies]", GMO Safety website, 2 April 2008, accessed 7 July 2009</ref> From 1992-2000, research fellow Bartsch conducted field trials with GM sugar beets from the seed company [[KWS]].<ref>"[http://www.biosicherheit.de/pdf/proceedings99/15Bartsch.pdf Wissenschaftliche Begleitung von Freilandversuchen mit Rhizomania-resistenten Zuckerrüben]", BMBF-Statusseminar, Braunschweig 1999, pp. 65, 66</ref><ref>KWS website is at: http://www.kws.de/</ref>  
  
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Schuphan was project leader of several joint projects on GM risk assessment, financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Since 1998 Bartsch has been a private docent (senior academic) and kept this position when he started working for the [[Robert Koch Institute]] (RKI, now [[BVL]]), the German competent authority for the release of GMOs. Together with scientists from RWTH Aachen, Bartsch published scientific articles that are connected to GM risk assessment and the BMBF projects, and he has overseen PhD theses on the topic of ecology and genetic engineering.<ref>See, for example, C. Saeglitz et al., [http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1603/0022-0493(2006)99%5B1768:MTCSOE%5D2.0.CO%3B2 Monitoring the Cry1Ab Susceptibility of European Corn Borer in Germany], Journal of Economic Entomology 99(5):1768-1773. 2006</ref>. In 2006, Bartsch's RWTH colleague [[Achim Gathmann]] also joined the BVL. In 2007, the RWTH awarded Bartsch the title Professor.
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Schuphan was project leader of several joint projects on GM risk assessment, financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Since 1998 Bartsch has been a private docent (senior academic) and kept this position when he started working for the [[Robert Koch Institute]] (RKI, now [[BVL]]), the German competent authority for the release of GMOs. Together with scientists from RWTH Aachen, Bartsch published scientific articles that are connected to GM risk assessment and the BMBF projects, and he has overseen PhD theses on the topic of ecology and genetic engineering.<ref>See, for example, C. Saeglitz et al., [http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1603/0022-0493(2006)99%5B1768:MTCSOE%5D2.0.CO%3B2 Monitoring the Cry1Ab Susceptibility of European Corn Borer in Germany], Journal of Economic Entomology 99(5):1768-1773. 2006</ref> In 2006, Bartsch's RWTH colleague [[Achim Gathmann]] also joined the BVL. In 2007, the RWTH awarded Bartsch the title Professor.
  
 
The following is a description of Bartsch from the EFSA Declaration of Interests:  
 
The following is a description of Bartsch from the EFSA Declaration of Interests:  

Revision as of 17:23, 7 July 2009

Prof. Detlef Bartsch is head of the Coexistence and GMO Monitoring unit of the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) in Berlin, Germany. In June 2009 he was appointed a member of the GMO Panel of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).[1]

Activities

The following is adapted for SpinProfiles from “Control or Collaboration?” by Antje Lorch and Christoph Then.

Studies and scientific work

  • studies in biology, University of Göttingen (Germany)
  • 1990: PhD on plant ecology at the University of Göttingen (Germany)
  • 1990-92: postdoc at the TU Berlin, Section Ecosystem Science & Plant Ecology with Prof. Sukopp (Member of the German Central Commission on Biosafety, 1990-2006)
  • 1992-97: Research Fellow at the Technical University (RWTH) Aachen with Prof. Schuphan
  • 1997-98: Research Fellow with Prof Ellstrand, University of California Riverside (UCR, USA)
  • 1999-2003: lecturer for botany at the RWTH Aachen

RWTH Aachen

Until his retirement Prof Ingolf Schuphan chaired the Institute for Environmental Research at the RWTH Aachen.[2] From 1992-2000, research fellow Bartsch conducted field trials with GM sugar beets from the seed company KWS.[3][4]

Schuphan was project leader of several joint projects on GM risk assessment, financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Since 1998 Bartsch has been a private docent (senior academic) and kept this position when he started working for the Robert Koch Institute (RKI, now BVL), the German competent authority for the release of GMOs. Together with scientists from RWTH Aachen, Bartsch published scientific articles that are connected to GM risk assessment and the BMBF projects, and he has overseen PhD theses on the topic of ecology and genetic engineering.[5] In 2006, Bartsch's RWTH colleague Achim Gathmann also joined the BVL. In 2007, the RWTH awarded Bartsch the title Professor.

The following is a description of Bartsch from the EFSA Declaration of Interests:

Lecturer and associated member of a University working group on biosafety research on GMOs; several papers published on GMO biosafety, risk assessment and monitoring; reviewer for several international peer-reviewed journals on GM0 risk assessment.[6]

Current position

Since 2003, Bartsch has been working at the Robert Koch Insitute (RKI) under Hans-Jörg Buhk, and 2004 moved together with him to the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL), when the approvals system for the release of GMOs and field trials was moved to the BVL.

Since 2002 Bartsch has been scientific director and advisor of "Co-existence and GMO monitoring" at BVL.[7]

Membership of commissions and working groups

  • In Germany Bartsch is a member of a working group on post-market monitoring, together with representatives of other authorities, research institutes and biotech companies. Among others, this group developed questionnaires that farmers should fill in as the main component of a post-market monitoring of GM crops.
  • since 2002: reviewer for GMO biosafety research projects financed by German ministries for Education and Research (BMBF) and for Food, Consumer Protection and Agriculture (BMEVL).
  • 2002-06: reviewer for GMO biosafety projects for the USDA.
  • 2002-07: member of the Steering Committee on GMO monitoring of the German Association of Engineers (VDI): “ The Association of German Engineers (VDI) is a financially independent and politically unaffiliated, non-profit organization of 132,000 engineers and natural scientists. More than 13,000 of these members work for the VDI in an honorary capacity. Established in 1856, the VDI is today the largest engineering association in Western Europe. In Germany, it is recognized as the representative of engineers both within the profession and in the public arena. As the leading institution for training and technology transfer among experts, it is also a partner at the preliminary stages of the decision-making process in matters of technological policy and for all questions that engineers face in their professional or public lives. ”
  • since 2003: member of the EFSA GMO panel, now for the third term 2009-12 as one of 4 German scientists in the 21 person strong panel. Member of the EFSA working groups Applications - Environment, Guidance for the assessment of genetically modified plants used for non-food or non-feed purposes, Self task on non-target organisms and the sub-working groups Environment ERA GD and Statistics ERA Guidance.
  • 2003-2008: member of the expert working group on monitoring of GMOs of the European Commission
  • since 2006: Steering Committee member National Research programme 59, to evaluate research projects for the Swiss National Research Foundation. the Swiss National Research Prgramme 59, which was set up after the Swiss population decided on a moratorium against the commercial release of GM crops and which currently finances also research like that in which Romeis develops GM wheat.

1.4 == participation in research projects ==

1.5 == selected publications ==

1.6 == participation in lobby organisations ==

  • member of the lobby organisation EFB, and possibly since 2002 interim board member of the EFB section biodiversity under Klaus Ammann. (doc, see attached pdf).
  • since 2002: member of ISBR, whose president Joachim Schieman is.
  • since 2002: member of the Botanical Association of Berlin-Brandenburg
  • since 2002: member of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
  • since 2005: As member of the IOBC/WPRS, Bartsch is one of the co-authors of the a publication about the tiered approach as basis for the risk assessment of effects on non-target organisms (Romeis et al. 2008). This concept was first presented 2004 at a EuropaBio conference, and then developed in the IOBC/WPRS working group, where Bartsch was member of the steering committee together with Jörg Romeis and a representative from Syngenta. The authors of the Nature article include also employees from BASF, DuPont and Monsanto as well as the EFSA GMO Panel members Joachiem Schiemann and Jeremey Sweet. The article claims that even though the working group includes "scientists that work within regulatory agencies, the commercial biotech industry and commercial contract laboratories [...] members of the working group participate as individuals, not as representatives of these organizations."
  • 1997 Bartsch initiated the "Aachen iniative"; in 2000 he and Schuphan started an appeal “Don't disregard the ecological advantages of plant biotechnology!” Nicht die ökologischen Vorteile der grünen Gentechnik vernachlässigen
  • 20002 he was shown in an advertising video by the biotech industry about GM maize.
  • since 2002: member of the Society for Plant Breeding which is supported among others by BASF and the German Plant Breeders' Association
  • In 2004 Bartsch reviewed Klaus Ammann's report, and is listed in it with his position at the RKI. The report was financed by Monsanto.

1.7 == direct and indirect involvement in approval procedures for GMOs == In Germany, Bartsch is as a representative of the competent authority for the release of GMOs among others responsible for the approval of coexistence and (postmarket) monitoring. At EU level he is a member of the EFSA GMO panel also responsible for the approval of monitoring plans, as well as for objections from EU member states. In Germany he is closely connected with scientists from the RWTH Aachen who conduct research studies, financed by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, on whose results he relies (among others) for his assessment.

1.8 == Quotes == Already 1996 Bartsch stated in an interview „Es geht schon lange nicht mehr darum, ob wir die Gentechnik wollen oder nicht. Es geht vielmehr darum, wie wir sie wollen.“ "It's no longer about whether we like genetic engineering or not. It is about how we want it." 2006, Bartsch described MON810 as a "tested, safe product": "The BVL is aware of the results of the BMBF safety research into MON810 maize. In the BVL’s judgement, they do not give grounds for a reassessment." (Interview with gmo-safety.eu)

1.9 == CV == Cv for EFSA: https://doi.efsa.europa.eu/doi/?wicket:interface=:0:memberslistpanel:panelmemberlist:3:expertcv:cvPdf:linkCvPdf::IResourceListener:: DoI ofr EFSA: https://doi.efsa.europa.eu/doi/?wicket:interface=:0:memberslistpanel:panelmemberlist:3:expertdoi:linkDoiPdf::IResourceListener::

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Notes

  1. ↑ EFSA: New members for GMO Panel, GMO Safety website of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, accessed 2 July 2009
  2. ↑ "[Bt maize pollen outside of maize fields does not pose a threat to butterflies]", GMO Safety website, 2 April 2008, accessed 7 July 2009
  3. ↑ "Wissenschaftliche Begleitung von Freilandversuchen mit Rhizomania-resistenten Zuckerrüben", BMBF-Statusseminar, Braunschweig 1999, pp. 65, 66
  4. ↑ KWS website is at: http://www.kws.de/
  5. ↑ See, for example, C. Saeglitz et al., Monitoring the Cry1Ab Susceptibility of European Corn Borer in Germany, Journal of Economic Entomology 99(5):1768-1773. 2006
  6. ↑ "Detlef Bartsch, Annual Declaration of Interests", EFSA website, 2008, can be downloaded from https://doi.efsa.europa.eu/doi/doiweb/wg/45263 (direct link to pdf does not work as of 7 July 2009)
  7. ↑ "Detlef Bartsch, Annual Declaration of Interests", EFSA website, 2008, can be downloaded from https://doi.efsa.europa.eu/doi/doiweb/wg/45263 (direct link to pdf does not work as of 7 July 2009)
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