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Governance Challenges from Transformative Technologies

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Biotechnology Regulation and Trade

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This chapter provides a thorough review of various international regulatory initiatives implemented or under negotiation to develop the architecture for regulating the production, trade and marketing of biologically-derived crops, bioproducts and foods. The results of these global governance efforts are compared and contrasted to provide for a detailed assessment of how transformative technology barriers have been identified and addressed within the existing and emerging institutions.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    As was discussed in Chap. 2.

  2. 2.

    Commonly known as a type 1 error whereby a decision to go ahead should not, in hindsight, have been made. Type 2 errors are decisions not to go ahead that should, in retrospect, not have been made.

  3. 3.

    The World Organization for Animal Health is the new name for the long standing institution—the Office International des Epizooties or OIE. When the institution was renamed in 2003 it kept its historic and well known acronym.

  4. 4.

    The exception is the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

  5. 5.

    The CPB refers to products as LMOs, living modified organisms. For the purposes of consistency, we will refer to the products as GMOs or GM products.

  6. 6.

    A, C, G and T represent the four nucleotide bases of adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine.

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    Stuart J. Smyth, William A. Kerr & Peter W. B. Phillips

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Smyth, S.J., Kerr, W.A., Phillips, P.W.B. (2017). Governance Challenges from Transformative Technologies. In: Biotechnology Regulation and Trade. Natural Resource Management and Policy, vol 51. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53295-0_6

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