Stanziani Alessandro
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institutions et dynamiques historiques de l'économie (IDHE) and Ecole Normale, Supérieure (ENS) de Cachan, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, FR-75005 Paris, France.
Appetite. 2008 Jul;51(1):15-7. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2008.02.007. Epub 2008 Feb 15.
The historical definition of a natural product stands at the crossroads of business, health, and the symbolic order of things. Until the end of the 19th century, "natural product" was a synonym of perishable. The emergency of organic chemistry made perishability be replaced with "toxicity". Nowadays, genetics is provoking a radical change in the notion and practises of "natural product". However, these concerns are never entirely opposed to "naturality" as a synonym for sacred and symbolic order. Traceability is largely based upon kosher practices and the association between organic and good for health is hardly based upon sound scientific arguments.
天然产物的历史定义处于商业、健康和事物的象征秩序的交叉点上。直到19世纪末，“天然产物”还是易腐的同义词。有机化学的出现使易腐性被“毒性”所取代。如今，遗传学正在引发“天然产物”概念和实践的根本性变革。然而，这些担忧从未完全与作为神圣和象征秩序同义词的“自然性”相对立。可追溯性很大程度上基于犹太洁食惯例，而有机与健康有益之间的关联几乎并非基于可靠的科学论据。
