Morven A. McLean
6 Papers
35 Citations
Morven A. McLean is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Risk assessment & Biology. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 6 publications.
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When bad science makes good headlines: Bt maize and regulatory bans.
TL;DR: All available NTA studies conducted with purified Cry1Ab protein or tissue from Bt maize plants (bi-trophic exposure) published in peer-reviewed journals to date are analyzed and none of the results have been corroborated by other research groups in prior or later experiments, and thus provide no confirming evidence of toxicity.
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Genetically engineered trees for plantation forests: key considerations for environmental risk assessment
Hely Häggman,Alan Raybould,Aluízio Borém,Thomas R. Fox,Levis Handley,Magnus Hertzberg,Meng-Zu Lu,Philip Macdonald,Taichi Oguchi,Giancarlo Pasquali,Les Pearson,Gary F. Peter,Hector Quemada,Armand Séguin,Kylie Tattersall,Eugênio C. Ulian,Christian Walter,Morven A. McLean +17 more
TL;DR: This paper examines how the ERA paradigm used for GE crop plants may be applied to GE trees for use in plantation forests and emphasizes the importance of differentiating between ERA for confined field trials of GE trees, and ERA for unconfined or commercial-scale releases.
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Transportability of confined field trial data for environmental risk assessment of genetically engineered plants: a conceptual framework
Monica Garcia-Alonso,Paul Hendley,Franz Bigler,Edgar Mayeregger,Ronald Parker,Clara Rubinstein,Emilio H. Satorre,Fernando Solari,Morven A. McLean +8 more
TL;DR: Application of the conceptual framework provides a scientifically defensible process for evaluating if existing CFT data from remote sites are relevant and/or sufficient for local ERAs and promotes a strategic approach to identifying CFT site locations so that field data will be transportable from one regulatory jurisdiction to another.
Reply to Science-based risk assessment requires careful evaluation of all studies.
TL;DR: This issue is not for an esoteric group of researchers or experts to pronounce what constitutes quality in science for policy and then dismiss as irrelevant and unreliable any other science not corresponding with how their own particular interests and values have defined what is important.
Improving Design Quality of Early-tier Non-target Arthropod Studies
Jörg Romeis,Morven A. McLean +1 more
- 01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: A typical risk hypothesis related to the NTA effects of arthropod-resistant GE plants is that the expressed protein is not toxic to valued NTAs at the concentration present in the field1,2.