Cargando…
The more favorable attitude of the citizens toward GMOs supports a new regulatory framework in the European Union
Since 1996 till 2018, the global area cultivated with GM crops has increased 113-fold, making biotech crops one of the fastest adopted crop technology in the past decades. In the European Union, only two countries still cultivate one available transgenic crop event on minor hectarage. Moreover, the...
Autor principal: | |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Taylor & Francis
2020
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7553740/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32787504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2020.1795525 |
_version_ | 1783593663991906304 |
---|---|
author | Ichim, Mihael Cristin |
author_facet | Ichim, Mihael Cristin |
author_sort | Ichim, Mihael Cristin |
collection | PubMed |
description | Since 1996 till 2018, the global area cultivated with GM crops has increased 113-fold, making biotech crops one of the fastest adopted crop technology in the past decades. In the European Union, only two countries still cultivate one available transgenic crop event on minor hectarage. Moreover, the number of notifications for confined field trials has dramatically dropped in the last decade. All these are happening while the EU legislation on GM crops has come under severe criticism. The percentage of EU citizens concerned about the presence of GMOs in the environment has decreased from 30% (in 2002) to 19% (in 2011), while the level of concern about the use of GM ingredients in food or drinks has decreased from 63% (in 2005) to 27% (in 2019). The steadily increasing acceptance of the EU citizens of GMOs in the environment and food, as it was recorded by Eurobarometers, should additionally ease the way and support a positive change of the legal framework that regulates the GM crops’ testing and commercial cultivation in the EU. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-7553740 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2020 |
publisher | Taylor & Francis |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-75537402021-08-12 The more favorable attitude of the citizens toward GMOs supports a new regulatory framework in the European Union Ichim, Mihael Cristin GM Crops Food Commentary Since 1996 till 2018, the global area cultivated with GM crops has increased 113-fold, making biotech crops one of the fastest adopted crop technology in the past decades. In the European Union, only two countries still cultivate one available transgenic crop event on minor hectarage. Moreover, the number of notifications for confined field trials has dramatically dropped in the last decade. All these are happening while the EU legislation on GM crops has come under severe criticism. The percentage of EU citizens concerned about the presence of GMOs in the environment has decreased from 30% (in 2002) to 19% (in 2011), while the level of concern about the use of GM ingredients in food or drinks has decreased from 63% (in 2005) to 27% (in 2019). The steadily increasing acceptance of the EU citizens of GMOs in the environment and food, as it was recorded by Eurobarometers, should additionally ease the way and support a positive change of the legal framework that regulates the GM crops’ testing and commercial cultivation in the EU. Taylor & Francis 2020-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7553740/ /pubmed/32787504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2020.1795525 Text en © 2020 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Ichim, Mihael Cristin The more favorable attitude of the citizens toward GMOs supports a new regulatory framework in the European Union |
title | The more favorable attitude of the citizens toward GMOs supports a new regulatory framework in the European Union |
title_full | The more favorable attitude of the citizens toward GMOs supports a new regulatory framework in the European Union |
title_fullStr | The more favorable attitude of the citizens toward GMOs supports a new regulatory framework in the European Union |
title_full_unstemmed | The more favorable attitude of the citizens toward GMOs supports a new regulatory framework in the European Union |
title_short | The more favorable attitude of the citizens toward GMOs supports a new regulatory framework in the European Union |
title_sort | more favorable attitude of the citizens toward gmos supports a new regulatory framework in the european union |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7553740/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32787504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2020.1795525 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT ichimmihaelcristin themorefavorableattitudeofthecitizenstowardgmossupportsanewregulatoryframeworkintheeuropeanunion AT ichimmihaelcristin morefavorableattitudeofthecitizenstowardgmossupportsanewregulatoryframeworkintheeuropeanunion |