What Risk Assessments of Genetically Modified Organisms Can Learn from Institutional Analyses of Public Health Risks

المؤلفون المشاركون

Rajan, S. Ravi
Letourneau, Deborah K.

المصدر

BioMed Research International

العدد

المجلد 2012، العدد 2012 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2012)، ص ص. 1-8، 8ص.

الناشر

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

تاريخ النشر

2012-11-04

دولة النشر

مصر

عدد الصفحات

8

التخصصات الرئيسية

الطب البشري

الملخص EN

The risks of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are evaluated traditionally by combining hazard identification and exposure estimates to provide decision support for regulatory agencies.

We question the utility of the classical risk paradigm and discuss its evolution in GMO risk assessment.

First, we consider the problem of uncertainty, by comparing risk assessment for environmental toxins in the public health domain with genetically modified organisms in the environment; we use the specific comparison of an insecticide to a transgenic, insecticidal food crop.

Next, we examine normal accident theory (NAT) as a heuristic to consider runaway effects of GMOs, such as negative community level consequences of gene flow from transgenic, insecticidal crops.

These examples illustrate how risk assessments are made more complex and contentious by both their inherent uncertainty and the inevitability of failure beyond expectation in complex systems.

We emphasize the value of conducting decision-support research, embracing uncertainty, increasing transparency, and building interdisciplinary institutions that can address the complex interactions between ecosystems and society.

In particular, we argue against black boxing risk analysis, and for a program to educate policy makers about uncertainty and complexity, so that eventually, decision making is not the burden that falls upon scientists but is assumed by the public at large.

نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)

Rajan, S. Ravi& Letourneau, Deborah K.. 2012. What Risk Assessments of Genetically Modified Organisms Can Learn from Institutional Analyses of Public Health Risks. BioMed Research International،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-991495

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)

Rajan, S. Ravi& Letourneau, Deborah K.. What Risk Assessments of Genetically Modified Organisms Can Learn from Institutional Analyses of Public Health Risks. BioMed Research International No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-991495

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)

Rajan, S. Ravi& Letourneau, Deborah K.. What Risk Assessments of Genetically Modified Organisms Can Learn from Institutional Analyses of Public Health Risks. BioMed Research International. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-991495

نوع البيانات

مقالات

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

الملاحظات

Includes bibliographical references

رقم السجل

BIM-991495