This week, the ESRC Global Environmental Change
Programme launched a new review:
'The Politics of GM Food: Risk, science and public trust'
This 20 page document is based on the work of ten
GECP researchers undertaken over the past five years.
The report does the following:
* it challenges the assumption that the public are ignorant
and irrational over GM foods
* it shows that science cannot provide all the answers in
assessing the safety of new technologies, and
* it points to the narrowness of the remit of the current
regulatory regime as undermining public confidence.
We also make some clear policy recommendations, so it's
not all moaning!
The report has generated much interest from the policy
world, and has also had significant media coverage,
including:
Monday 18th
* The BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, including
Environment Minister Michael Meacher responding to the
report.
* Sir Robert May on Start the Week with Jeremy Paxman
* ITN lunchtime news
* BBC 6 pm TV news
* Channel 4 news
Tuesday
Independent, Guardian, Daily Mail
Other:
Guardian and BBC news online web sites
THES, 22.10.99
The full report and supporting documents are available
online at www.gecko.ac.uk or is available from Katherine
Bowden at the address below for ukp10 (payable to the
University of Sussex).
I look forward to receiving your comments. Please
circulate as you see fit.
Alister Scott
ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme
www.gecko.ac.uk
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Mantell Building, University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RF
Tel: 01273-678935
Fax: 01273-604483
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