Smyth Stuart, Phillips Peter W B
Agricultural Economics, University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5A8, Canada.
Trends Biotechnol. 2003 Sep;21(9):389-93. doi: 10.1016/S0167-7799(03)00197-5.
Biotechnology has the potential to introduce new food safety risks, liabilities and benefits, and although privately managed supply chains (involving proactive management of the production of branded products) are effective at providing, managing and communicating adequate information about products with well understood risks, products with uncertain risks pose a greater challenge. The demand for increased product information regarding genetically modified content, in particular, places new constraints on food supply chains, frequently resulting in communication failures. Here we assess and reject mandatory labeling as an appropriate response.
生物技术有可能带来新的食品安全风险、责任和益处,尽管私营管理的供应链(涉及对品牌产品生产的主动管理)在提供、管理和传达有关已知风险产品的充分信息方面很有效,但具有不确定风险的产品带来了更大的挑战。特别是对转基因成分产品信息需求的增加,给食品供应链带来了新的限制,经常导致沟通不畅。在此,我们评估并否定了强制标签作为一种适当应对措施的做法。