UK: disputing boundaries of biotechnology regulation

Les Levidow and Susan Carr

Science and Public Policy, 1996, vol. 23, issue 3, 164-170

Abstract: UK biotechnology regulation has developed ‘precautionary controls’ for GMO releases. Stringent legislation was drafted and eventually implemented by the Department of Environment (DoE). In parallel, the DoE established a broadly-based advisory committee, which included ecologists and an implicit public-interest representation. The committee was assigned the task to advise on the release of all “novel organisms” — a term which implies an analogy between GMOs and non-indigenous organisms. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 1996
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