UK Report Says Technology Can Guarantee Global Food Sustainability
January 30, 2009| |
Modern biotechnology should be used to develop crops that are resistant to environmental stresses, have higher yields, and have nutritionally enhanced traits. Only technology can guarantee global food sustainability. This was stressed in a report “The Vital Ingredient - Chemical Science and Engineering for Sustainable Food” prepared by the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Chemistry and Institution of Chemical Engineers.
Commissioned by the British House of Commons, the report also said that “regulations must be based on evaluation of the risk, using sound evidence, and not a socio-political fear of new technology.”
Download a full copy of the report at http://www.rsc.org/images/FoodReport_tcm18-142397.pdf
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