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• EPA: EPA Approves Experimental Use Permit to Test Innovative Biopesticide Tool to Better Protect Public Health (1st May 2020)
  

• GMWatch: Guinea pig population (22nd September 2019)
  

• Evans et al. (2019) Transgenic Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Transfer Genes into a Natural Population
  

• African Centre for Biodiversity: Oxitec’s failed GM mosquito releases worldwide: Forewarnings for Africa and the Target Malaria project (30th April 2019)
  

• ACB: Critique of African Union and NEPAD's positions on gene drive mosquitoes for Malaria elimination (November 2018)
  

• ACB: Critique des positions de l'Union africaine et du NEPAD sur les moustiques issus du forcage genetique pour eliminer le paludisme (Novembre 2018)
  

• Communications between MRCU and Ministry (released 3rd April 2018)
  2nd April 2018

• Communications between MRCU staff (released 3rd April 2018)
  2nd April 2018

• Cayman News Service Library: Redacted correspondence between Oxitec, MRCU and ministry, April 2016 - December 2017
  

• World Health Organisation: SIXTH MEETING OF THE VECTOR CONTROL ADVISORY GROUP. SIXTH MEETING OF THE VECTOR CONTROL ADVISORY GROUP GENEVA, SWITZERLAND 26–28 APRIL 2017.
  

• Annual report MRCU - June 2017 Friendly Aedes aegypti project in West Bay
  3rd September 2017

• Documentation supplied to National Conservation Council on expansion of GM mosquito programme, June 2017 meeting
  

• USDA: USDA Announces Availability of EA for Field Release of GE Diamondback Moth (18th April 2017)
  

• Reeves & Phillipson (2017) Mass Releases of Genetically Modified Insects in Area-Wide Pest Control Programs and Their Impact on Organic Farmers
  

• Center for Food Safety: Advocates Challenge FDA on First Ever GE Mosquito Release (22nd November 2016)
  

• Center for Food Safety: This Election, Keys Residents Vote "NO" on GE Mosquitoes (9th November 2016)
  

• NON-BINDING POLL: (KEY HAVEN) GENETICALLY MODIFIED MOSQUITOES (8th November 2016)
  

• USDA: Withdrawal of an EA for Field Release of GE Diamondback Moths (7th November 2016)
  

• FDA: Oxitec Mosquito (5th August 2016)
  

  Includes links to the final environmental assessment for proposed experimental releases in the Florida Keys.

• Alfaro-Murillo et al (2016): A Cost-Effectiveness Tool for Informing Policies on Zika Virus Control
  

• Governo do Estado de Sao Paulo: Casos de dengue caem 81 percent no estado de Sao Paulo (20th May 2016)
  

• Center for Food Safety: Groups Slam Feds for Weak Review of GMO Mosquito Risks (15th May 2016)
  

• The Mosquito Research Control Unit (Cayman Islands): The Friendly Aedes Aegypti Project (May 2016)
  

• Cayman Islands Government: New Mosquito Control Announced (6th May 2016)
  

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  SeekingAlpha: Intrexon: The Public Markets' Theranos, Parts 2-8 (27th April 2016)
  

• ANVISA: Anvisa decide que mosquito transgenico e objeto de regulacao sanitaria [In Portuguese] (12th April 2016)
  

• TWN: Genetic control is no answer to Zika (or dengue) (8th April 2016)
  

• Center for Food Safety: GE Mosquitoes? Tell FDA NO! (April 2016)
  

• Food and Water Watch: Fighting Mosquitoes with GMO Mosquitoes (5th April 2016)
  

• WHO: Mosquito (vector) control emergency response and preparedness for Zika virus (18th March 2016)
  

• IAEA: IAEA Helps Brazil Step up the Fight Against 'Zika' Mosquitoes (24th February 2016)
  

• WHO: ZIKA STRATEGIC RESPONSE FRAMEWORK AND JOINT OPERATIONS PLAN: JANUARY - JUNE 2016
  

• WHO: Mosquito control: can it stop Zika at source?
  

• Nuffield Council on Bioethics: Zika: ethical considerations (9th February 2016)
  

• Risk Bites: Can we eliminate diseases like Zika, dengue and malaria using gene drives? (30th November 2015)
  

• DAFWA: Fruit fly trial in Western Australia (November 2015)
  

• Center for Food Safety: Advocacy Groups Call for Halt to Open Air Field Trials of Genetically Engineered Moths (10th November 2015)
  

• IDSE: Chikungunya: An Emerging Public Health Problem in the Americas (October 2015)
  

• Generalitat de Catalunya: Agricultura considera que no es pot garantir el confinament de l'alliberament de mosques modificades geneticament (6th August 2015)
  

  Press release from the Catalan Government: Refusal of Oxitec olive fly application as containment cannot be guaranteed.

• US National Academies of Sciences: Gene Drive Research in Non-Human Organisms: Recommendations for Responsible Conduct (30th July 2015)
  

• Wyss Institute: Safeguarding the greater good (30th July 2015)
  

• JRC: Oxitec notification to release GM olive flies in Spain (22nd May 2015)
  

  Note: this notification was not posted until July 2015.

• Cornell University: Commitment to responsible science guides CALS plans for moth trials (11th June 2015)
  

• Food and Water Watch: Letter to FDA on GE mosquito (12th February 2015)
  

• ABRASCO: Rati-retificacao da Nota Tecnica da Abrasco frente a liberacao comercial de mosquitos transgenicos pela CTNBio, apos interpelacao administrativa da Oxitec (11th February 2015)
  

• Decision of the European Ombudsman closing the inquiry into complaint 346/2013/SID against the European Food Safety Authority ('EFSA') (28th January 2015)
  

• USDA-APHIS: FONSI for Field release of Genetically Engineered Diamondback Moth Strains
  

• Food and Water Watch: The Science is Still Out on GMO Moths (25th September 2014)
  

• USDA APHIS: Notice of Availability for an environmental assessment associated with a permit request for field release of genetically engineered diamondback moths within the grounds of the Cornell University NYSAES (28th August 2014)
  

• AS-PTA: Critical vote on the GM mosquito (22nd August 2014)
  

• WHO TDR and FNIH: The Guidance Framework for testing genetically modified mosquitoes (June 2014)
  

• Technical Opinion on Examination Request presented at the 171st Plenary Meeting of the National Technical Commission on Biosafety (CTNBio) (10th April 2014)
  

  A critical opinion presented to Brazilian regulators CTNBio regarding the application for commercial releases of Oxitec's GM mosquitoes (English translation).

• Comunicados de prensa de CIAM: Cientificos britanicos concluyen que estudios sobre mosquitos transgenicos en Panama no cumplen con estandares internacionales [In Spanish] (20th March 2014)
  

• WHO: THIRD MEETING OF THE VECTOR CONTROL ADVISORY GROUP (12–14 NOVEMBER 2014)
  

• Oxitec: Advanced Informed Agreement Notification (Panama) (February 2014)
  11th February 2014

• Friends of the Earth Spain: Action against GM olive flies [In Spanish]
  

• Moscamed: Projeto Aedes Transgenico
  

• Friends of the Earth Spain PR: Amigos de la Tierra alerta sobre los riesgos de liberar moscas transgenicas para evitar plagas en olivos [In Spanish] (18th September 2013)
  

• Oxitec: Application for release of GM olive fly in Spain (3rd January 2013)
  

• Third World Network: Buzz or Bust for Genetically Engineered Insects? (May 2013)
  

• GMO Free Florida
  

• Third World Network: Survival of GM Mosquitoes in the Presence of Tetracycline Contamination (16th February 2012)
  

• Consumers Association of Penang: Procedures not complied with in GM mosquitoes release (16th February 2012)
  

• William Leiss: Environmental Release of Genetically-Engineered Mosquitoes: The Latest Episode in Frankenstein-Type Scientific Adventures (2nd February 2012)
  

• Friends of the Earth US: GE Mosquito Buzz Continues: Concerns around transparency and human health impacts raised by pro-GE Insect Scientists (1st February 2012)
  

• Reeves et al. (2012): Scientific standards and the regulation of genetically modified insects
  

  An expanded and annotated version of the paper published in PLOS.

• Public Library of Science: Genetically Modified Insect Collection (January 2012)
  

  The collection includes a paper by scientists at the Max Planck Institute, which criticises the lack of published scientific information about Oxitec's GM insect trials, and a response by Oxitec.

• ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON RELEASES TO THE ENVIRONMENT MINUTES OF THE 134TH MEETING OF ACRE AT NOBEL HOUSE, LONDON, THURSDAY, 1ST DECEMBER 2011
  

  Item 10.4 reports Oxitec's proposed potential trial of genetically modified diamond back moths in the UK under the Contained Use Regulations.

• DEFRA: DEP2011-1815: Malaysia Risk assessment (14th November 2011)
  

  Copies of the documents provided by Oxitec to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs under EC Regulation 1946/2003 to accompany the notification of its transboundary shipment of genetically modified mosquito eggs to Malaysia. 6 docs. Parts 3, 4 and 5 of DEP2011-1744 (Brazil notification documents) are to accompany this deposit.

• DEFRA: DEP2011-1744: Brazil risk assessment (1st November 2011)
  

  Redacted risk assessment provided by Oxitec to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs under EC Regulation 1946/2003 to accompany the notification of its transboundary shipment of genetically modified mosquito eggs to Brazil in February 2011. Six documents (zipped file).

• Wellcome Trust: Video feature: Controlling dengue fever, improving lives (October 2011)
  

• Richard Levine: i5k: The 5,000 Insect Genome Project
  

• Luisa Reis de Castro: Big Issues around a tiny insect (Masters thesis)
  

• Oxitec draft environmental assessment to USDA (February 2011)
  29th January 2011

• Aliran: GM mosquitoes: It just doesn't add up! (27th January 2011)
  

• Oxitec: Risk analysis: OX513A Aedes aegypti mosquito for potential release on the Cayman Islands (Grand Cayman).
  21st January 2011

• Third World Network: Biosafety Information Centre
  

  Section on insects and micro-organisms contains information about GM mosquitoes from a civil society organisation perspective.

• GENET: news articles
  

  Compilation of news articles on genetically-engineered mosquitoes

• Statement of Concern from Civil Society Organizations Regarding Field Release of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
  28th December 2010

• Consumers' Association of Penang and Sahabat Alam Malaysia: Memorandum on Malaysia's GM Aedes mosquito planned release: ethical, legal and human rights concerns
  

• Consumers Association of Penang: An Open Letter to the Government from Malaysian NGOs on genetically engineered Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
  

• Risk Assessment Report of the Malaysian Genetic Modification Advisory Committee (GMAC) For An Application To Conduct A Limited Mark-Release-Recapture Of Aedes Aegypti (L.) Wild Type and OX513A Strains
  

  Submitted by the Malaysian government to the Biosafety Clearing House of the Convention on Biological Diversity

• Malaysia Biosafety Clearing House
  

  Contains documents relating to the Malaysian Government's consultation on the proposed experimental releases of Oxitec's GM mosquitos and further information about the approved field experiments and the conditions the company needs to meet.

• Environment Agency Austria and University of Bern: Defining Environmental Risk Assessment Criteria for Genetically Modified Insects to be placed on the EU Market (September 2010)
  

• Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology: Genetically modified insects (June 2010)
  

• EU research programme INFRAVEC brochure: Research Capacity for the Implementation of Genetic Control of Mosquitoes (2009-2013)
  

  Euros 8.5 million for research on GM mosquitos.

• INFRAVEC homepage: (EU research on GM mosquitos)
  

• John Marshall (Caltech): The Cartegena Protocol and GM mosquitos
  

• World Health Organisation (WHO): Progress and prospects for use of genetically modified insects (May 2009)
  

• Phuc et al. (2007) Late-acting dominant lethal genetic systems and mosquito control.
  

  Journal paper by Oxitec and collaborating scientists about the experimental GM mosquitos planned for release in Malaysia.

• Scott et al (2002) The Ecology of genetically modified mosquitos. Science, 298, 117-119.
  

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