Excellence Through Stewardship^® Guides

Excellence Through Stewardship (ETS) Guides are designed to promote stewardship and quality management across the entire plant biotechnology industry. They provide direction on how to develop and implement stewardship programs and quality management systems from discovery through commercialization and post-market activities.

ETS Guides are disseminated widely to members and made publicly available. They are produced in a "ready-to-use" format, easily adapted by individual ETS members and others to suit their organization-specific activities and operations. Members may use the Guides to develop their own practices and operating procedures to achieve the ETS Stewardship Objectives, Principles and Management Practices.

The Guide for Stewardship of Biotechnology-Derived Plant Products  provides plant-biotechnology product developers, providers and stakeholders with an overview of stewardship considerations at different phases of the life cycle of biotechnology-derived plant products.

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The Guide for Maintaining Plant Product Integrity of Biotechnology-Derived Plant Products  provides detailed guidance on how to develop and implement a stewardship program and quality-management system that will assist product developers in maintaining plant product integrity from product development through commercialization and post-market activities. The Guide is a series of extensive and informative educational modules that can be adapted to the specific activities pertinent to the user’s own operations, including incorporation into existing quality-management systems. Common to all of the modules is an emphasis on the importance of product identification and traceback as well as documentation and data governance.

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The Guide for Product Launch Stewardship  (revised July 2010) assists an organization in its development and implementation of the policy and activities recommended for biotechnology-derived plant products, including commodity and specialty crops and, where applicable, their derivative products and by-products. For example, an organization may choose to implement product-launch stewardship activities that are crafted to direct a high-value specialty crop either to or away from specific markets.

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The Guide for Incident-Response Management of Biotechnology-Derived Plant Products  provides guidance for the prompt management and resolution of incidents involving plant biotechnology products. Potentially, incidents can occur at any stage of the product life cycle. Therefore, an organization should have systems, processes, procedures, and resources in place to respond to potential incidents involving biotechnology-derived plant products across the life cycle.

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The Guide for Product Discontinuation of Biotechnology-Derived Plant Products  provides guidance when the decision is made to discontinue a product and terminate sale globally as a strategic business decision. Discontinuation is a normal part of the biotechnology product life cycle. This situation is separate and distinct from that associated with withdrawn or recalled products. The objectives of a global product discontinuation process are to eliminate product inventories and prevent new market exposure for the discontinued product through company research, development and/or commercial activities.

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ETS works with interested parties to identify resources for making stewardship and quality management information and training available, both to its members and to others involved in the development and production of biotechnology-derived plant products. This includes academics, contractors, cooperators, licensees and other seed producers, trait providers and researchers.

Any organization engaged in discovering, developing or commercializing biotechnology-derived plant products should have stewardship programs and quality management systems that are tailored to the type and scope of its operations and activities. The following are Guides on the development and implementation of stewardship programs and quality management systems for biotechnology-derived plant products.