Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology ECNH

About us

The Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) is appointed by the Federal Council and mandated to advise the federal authorities from an ethical perspective, as an independent expert committee, in the field of non-human biotechnology and gene technology.

Topics

Developing countries and biotechnology

Dignity of living beings

Genetically modified food and animal feed

Nanotechnology & nanobiotechnology

Patents on plants and animals

Release of genetically modified organisms

Synthetic biology

Xenotransplantation

Further information

• Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics NEK-CNE
• Swiss Expert Committee for Biosafety SECB