University of Ghana, Legon and Michigan State University collaborate in Bio-safety technology

The University of Ghana is collaborating with the Michigan State University, in the US, to train African students in Bio-Safety Technology. 

The Dean of International Studies at the Michigan State University Steve Hanson announced this at a Bio-Safety Training in Accra. 

About 70 research scientists, policy makers and journalists from Ghana and Nigeria are attending the three day course. 

It is to equip participants with current information on the safe management of modern biotechnology and also help address misinformation, myths and misconceptions associated with biotechnology. 

Professor Hanson said training is surely a cost effective way at using relevant examples to illustrate local crop technologies. 

The Director of West Africa Center for Crop Improvement, Professor Eric Yeboah said a stakeholders meeting will be held next month to streamline modalities to develop a master’s programme on bio-safety. 

The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Mahama Ayariga in a message said like all new technologies, there is the potential for adverse effects and that is what bio safety regulations seek to address. 

Hence the passage of Ghana's Bio- safety Act and the establishment of a National Bio safety Board.

GBC