Michele Veeman (Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta) R. MacKay White (Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta)
Abstract
Agricultural biotechnology has become an issue of much debate in recent years. The establishment of standards for foods derived from biotechnology has become a Codex issue since the commercialization of geetically modified crops in the mid-1990s. One question of interest is whether the Codex is effective and efficient in achieving its purpose of developing consensus-based standards of safety and quality for food. The objective of this paper is to assess this question, particularly in regards to biotechnological applications to foods.
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Paper provided by Western Centre for Economic Research in its series Information Bulletins with number
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