Regulating the liabilities of agricultural biotechnology / Stuart Smyth [and others].

Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., 2004.

xiii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-201) and index.

Liability and transformative technology -- Diagnosis -- Innovation and liability -- Social amplification of risk -- Consumer responses to GM foods -- Current prescriptions -- Regulating transformative technologies -- International governance of liabilities -- Biological mechanisms to control GM liabilities -- Supply chain responses to liability -- Product differentiation strategies -- Prognosis -- Liability of plant-made pharmaceuticals -- Handling liabilities from transformative technologies .