Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 7/25/18

When any technology is held up to a strictly-applied hazard-based regulatory approach, the result is a near certain ban. For environmental activists who are deeply skeptical of technology, that may be the point. In European agricultural policy, certain technologies considered critical to modern farming and deemed safe by regulatory agencies around the world have been limited or eliminated with the application of a hazard-based model; it should come as no surprise that the consequences for farmers have been difficult.

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