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The political-scientific debate around biotechnology exemplifies the wider phenomenon of the “risk society”. New technoscientific developments are widely perceived to impose unpredictable risks. At issue is the credibility and adequacy of present scientific knowledge for risk assessment. As experts overtly disagree, safety claims are opened up to greater public scrutiny. There ensue conflicts of accountability about how risks should be defined, calculated and managed [1].
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Levidow, L., Carr, S. (1999). Dilemmas of risk-assessment research for transgenic crops. In: Ammann, K., Jacot, Y., Kjellsson, G., Simonsen, V. (eds) Methods for Risk Assessment of Transgenic Plants. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8700-7_26
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