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Product, not process! Explaining a basic concept in agricultural biotechnologies and food safety
Most life scientists have relentlessly recommended any evaluative approach of agri-food products to be based on examination of the phenotype, i.e. the actual characteristics of the food, feed and fiber varieties: the effects of any new cultivar (or micro-organism, animal) on our health are not depen...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5334331/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28255668 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40504-017-0048-8 |
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description | Most life scientists have relentlessly recommended any evaluative approach of agri-food products to be based on examination of the phenotype, i.e. the actual characteristics of the food, feed and fiber varieties: the effects of any new cultivar (or micro-organism, animal) on our health are not dependent on the process(es), the techniques used to obtain it. The so-called “genetically modified organisms” (“GMOs”), on the other hand, are commonly framed as a group with special properties – most frequently seen as dubious, or even harmful. Some social scientists still believe that considering the process is a correct background for science-based understanding and regulation. To show that such an approach is utterly wrong, and to invite scientists, teachers and science communicators to explain this mistake to students, policy-makers and the public at large, we imagined a dialogue between a social scientist, who has a positive opinion about a certain weight that a process-based orientation should have in the risk assessment, and a few experts who offer plenty of arguments against that view. The discussion focuses on new food safety. |
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spelling | pubmed-53343312017-03-16 Product, not process! Explaining a basic concept in agricultural biotechnologies and food safety Tagliabue, Giovanni Life Sci Soc Policy Research Most life scientists have relentlessly recommended any evaluative approach of agri-food products to be based on examination of the phenotype, i.e. the actual characteristics of the food, feed and fiber varieties: the effects of any new cultivar (or micro-organism, animal) on our health are not dependent on the process(es), the techniques used to obtain it. The so-called “genetically modified organisms” (“GMOs”), on the other hand, are commonly framed as a group with special properties – most frequently seen as dubious, or even harmful. Some social scientists still believe that considering the process is a correct background for science-based understanding and regulation. To show that such an approach is utterly wrong, and to invite scientists, teachers and science communicators to explain this mistake to students, policy-makers and the public at large, we imagined a dialogue between a social scientist, who has a positive opinion about a certain weight that a process-based orientation should have in the risk assessment, and a few experts who offer plenty of arguments against that view. The discussion focuses on new food safety. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5334331/ /pubmed/28255668 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40504-017-0048-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Research Tagliabue, Giovanni Product, not process! Explaining a basic concept in agricultural biotechnologies and food safety |
title | Product, not process! Explaining a basic concept in agricultural biotechnologies and food safety |
title_full | Product, not process! Explaining a basic concept in agricultural biotechnologies and food safety |
title_fullStr | Product, not process! Explaining a basic concept in agricultural biotechnologies and food safety |
title_full_unstemmed | Product, not process! Explaining a basic concept in agricultural biotechnologies and food safety |
title_short | Product, not process! Explaining a basic concept in agricultural biotechnologies and food safety |
title_sort | product, not process! explaining a basic concept in agricultural biotechnologies and food safety |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5334331/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28255668 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40504-017-0048-8 |
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