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Trust – An Essential Ingredient in Food and Agriculture Regulation

Published: 28-11-2024

How important is it for us to trust the food we eat? In this Q&A, food scientist and ethicist Ralph Early argues that trust and honesty are fundamental to the relationship between governments, citizens and food producers and should inform how we interact with the environment and regulate emerging food technologies.

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Looking at Risk Through the Lens of Uncertainty

Published: 24-09-2024

If you can’t control or predict the future, how can you prepare for it?  In his new book, Prof Ian Scoones suggests that in an increasingly unpredictable world conventional risk management – in finance and banking, critical infrastructures, pandemics, disasters and climate change and technology – is no longer working.

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What ‘Should’ – If Anything – Gene Editing Do For Us?

Published: 17-06-2024

Who do the ‘techno-optimists’ and gene-editing boosters speak for? As Prof David Christian Rose argued at a recent conference it isn’t necessarily farmers or citizens.

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Gene-edited Animals – Public Views Add Value to Policy Discourse

Published: 14-10-2022

A new public dialogue on gene edited farm animals, by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, BBSRC and Sciencewise, challenges the notion that members of the public are incapable of contributing to complex policy and regulatory discussions

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‘Voices from the Ground’ Make Regulation Better

Published: 26-09-2022

Citizen views are integral to ensuring that technologies and science responds to the needs and wants of society at large. Our new review concludes it’s time to make meaningful citizen engagement part of the DNA of the regulatory process.

Citizen StakeholdersLegislation & Regulation

The Public Wants Gene-editing Regulated – The Government Should Listen

Published: 01-06-2022

Anything can happen between now and the final version of the new Precision Breeding Bill. But government seems to have taken to heart the suggestion from last year’s Regulatory Horizons Council report to apply “creative use of guidelines, standards [and] policies” to see if it’s possible to get it right (or get away with it).

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How a new biotech rule will foster distrust with the public and impede progress in science

Published: 02-06-2020

Reclaiming a baseline of accountability is the first step in building public confidence in regulatory systems that work for people as well as science that the public believes in.

Citizen StakeholdersLegislation & RegulationPlant & Animal BreedingReports

The uncomfortable truth about GMOs and co-existence

Published: 24-03-2020

A new report suggests that while plant breeders of all kinds support the idea of ‘working together’ – there are few practical or regulatory pathways for achieving ‘co-existence’

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We need to talk about CRISPR

Published: 10-01-2020

We need an active public debate on the ethics of gene editing technology to realise its potential and prevent it being used in nefarious ways.

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Rewriting nature?

Published: 16-05-2019

Synthetic biology – altering or redesigning genes to meet human objectives – is a fast-developing field. So far mostly applied in agriculture and medicine, synthetic biology could have substantial knock-on […]

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