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Just a minor nitpick. > For example, European regulation prohibits GMO GMO is not forbidden. It just has to get approved case by case. https://en.wikipedia.o
by nosianu 2y ago
Just a minor nitpick.
> For example, European regulation prohibits GMO
GMO is not forbidden. It just has to get approved case by case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food_in_the_European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food_in_t... (section "Approach" shows what is required)
There is a large per-country component too.
> The EU uses the precautionary principle, demanding a pre-market authorisation for any GMO to enter the market and a post-market environmental monitoring.
Alternative link (EU site): https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/projects-and-activities/genetically-modified-organisms-gmos_en https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/projects-and-acti...
Much of the monitoring is to avoid or trace cross-contamination between fields, and ultimately the reason for that is significant consumer demand for non-GMO food, so that farmers who are non-GMO don't want their crops contaminated by a neighboring field that has GMO plants.
- TimTheTinker 2y agoThanks for the correction. > GMO is not forbidden. It just has to get approved case by case. Allowlisting makes so much more logical sense. New ideas shouldn't be allowed by default. Especially when so many variables are at play, the FDA's denylist model across a massive population makes it very difficult to narrow down what is causing a problem. If I could make only 1 change to US health policy, it would be switching the FDA to allowlisting.