Precaution vs. Progress: The Final Countdown for Europe’s NGT Proposal
For over two decades, Europe's stance on agricultural biotechnology was defined by three letters: GMO. To cultivate or sell a genetically modified (GM) crop in the region meant going through the world's strictest regulatory labyrinth. Europe's regulation of GM crops is based on absolute precaution, so impenetrable that it freezes innovation right at the laboratory door.
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