Biotechnology in Europe: contentions in the risk-regulation debate

Simon Shohet

Science and Public Policy, 1996, vol. 23, issue 2, 117-122

Abstract: The technical arguments for and against process-based regulation of biotechnology are reviewed, and the positions of proponents and opponents are examined, using the UK as a case. In particular, the findings of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution in 1989, which was in favour of specific regulation of genetic modification, are contrasted with the recommendations of the UK House of Lords Committee on Science and Technology, which in 1993 argued strongly for the relaxation of specific regulation of biotechnology. The various contentions about process-based regulation are examined critically, and the case is put that the precautionary approach, which was the basis of rules adopted in Europe in the late 1980s, can be justified. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 1996
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