Strategies for Communication on Food Biotechnology

Summary: Modern biotech. using gene splicing & recombinant DNA techniques is a rapidly developing field with a great diversity of applications & impacts upon ag., employ., environ., econ., & society. The training material in this publication incorporates: (1) studies related to novel foods & risk/benefit perception in the public, (2) the state of the art in risk assessment & mgmt. in food biotech., (3) available training & co...urse material for risk communicators, & (4) recommendations from scientists & various' stakeholders' participating in a workshop that examined approaches which may be of use when you are called upon to interact with the public in the novel foods debate. [read more]