Contributions from the rapporteurs: Prof. Dr. Tânia Maria Araújo Domingues Zucchi – National Technical Commission on Biosafety (CTNBio) [Comissão Técnica Nacional de Biossegurança] –, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo (ICB-USP) [Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas da Universidade de São Paulo], Brazil) and Prof. Dr. Carlos Alberto Moreira Filho (Einstein, USP).
Mrs. Maria Amélia de Toledo Leme (Embrapa Environment), for performing a review of the literature and providing support, and Mrs. Corina Barra Soares, for proofreading.
Embrapa Environment, for their collaboration.
The Institute for Technological Research (IPT) [Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas], for their encouragement.
The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) [Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico], an organization dedicated to the Brazilian government’s scientific and technological development, for supporting the preparation of this work.