RE: UK, GMO etc.

E. Ann Clark, Associate Professor (aclark@plant.uoguelph.ca)
Tue, 11 May 1999 12:56:39 EST

Dale: just curious. How is that one is able to determine that the
risk is so small as to be unworthy of effort at detection, if one has
not done the studies to test/demonstrate this in the first place?

As far as I have been able to determine, scientific conclusions are
usually reached *after* a study has been done, rather than *before*?

The potential risks are far from small - see some of my recent papers
posted on my homepage for specific references. It is quite correct
to state that "there is little or no evidence", but this should not
be inferred to mean that little or no risk was actually determined in
scientific studies. Rather, that it hasn't been tested. We are not
asking the right questions - indeed, behind the facade of
substantial equivalence, is government/industry asking any questions
at all? Ann

ACLARK@plant.uoguelph.ca
Dr. E. Ann Clark
Associate Professor
Crop Science
University of Guelph
Guelph, ON N1G 2W1
Phone: 519-824-4120 Ext. 2508
FAX: 519 763-8933
http://www.oac.uoguelph.ca/www/CRSC/faculty/eac.htm

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