AREC173 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Rio Declaration On Environment And Development, Vitamin A, Rockefeller Foundation
20 Oct 2016
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Treat with intellectual property something which is from nature: early 1990s private biotechnology companies developed several new gm foods (ex. Adi normally set at 1% of highest dose known to be harmless to laboratory animals. Even if found harmless with no toxicological effects, then human intake would be set at 1% of the diet. Substantial equivalence: standard for release of gm varieties in the us: So therefore, should not be too different: substantial equivalence is vaguely de ned, but is usually taken to mean chemical composition (gmos and goldilocks? different, but not too different). It is dif cult to know whether or not foods with similar chemical composition will have different environmental and health effects (uncertain, especially in the short- term). Thursday, october 20, 2016: the precautionary principle is embedded in many european and international environmental agreements (ex. The cartagena protocol on biosafety: biosafety protocol (2000) is a supplementary agreement to the convention on.
