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Risks and Chances of Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: The Impacts of Science and the Science of Impact Assessment
The public debate about the risks and chances of genetic engineering for agricultural applications is particularly controversial and has reached the dimension of a political conflict. Opposing interest groups ...
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Genetic Modification and Food Safety: Views of the World Health Organization
For many years, most countries have required the assessment of risks related to food additives, pesticide residues and other contaminants; however, new foods have not been required to undergo a formal pre-mark...
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Health Enhancing Food Ingredients Developed for the Functional Food Market: A Concerted Strategy
Encouraging the consumption of certain types of food rather than others, in a way to increase the content of certain components in the diet, or to reduce the intake of certain other nutrients, is a public heal...
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Foreword to the Workshop
The European Countries Biologists Association (ECBA) is the international association of professional biologists in Europe representing the existing national associations of biologists in the member countries ...
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Introduction to the Workshop
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Working Group II
The rural environment, at least as far as this has been understood in the European tradition, is neither a wild space in which nomadic encampments are scattered, nor an ephemeral aggregate of highly industrial...
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Synopsis
Although the European food supply seems one of the most secure and safest in the world at present, the focus on developments in food quality, nutrition and health during ECBA’s symposium and workshop revealed a n...
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Modern Bio- and Gene Technologies and the Future of Food Production
The history of food production is a history of continuous innovation to secure and improve the supply of wholesome, convenient, tasty and affordable food. We are now at the dawn of yet another innovation that ...
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Consumer Demands on Food Quality
Based on a declaration by US President John F. Kennedy in 1962, the world consumer movement (CI Consumers International former IOCU) stipulated in co-ordination with the evolution or sometimes even revolution...
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Gene Technology, Food and the Environment
It is difficult to accept that green farming methods and genetic engineering cannot co-exist. But this would require us to jettison the ideologically based slogans of both the commercial and green extremists.
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Hygienic Aspects of Food Quality
Since 1962, the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) has been charged with develo** standards, guidelines and other recommendations on the quality and safety of food to protect consumers’ health and t...
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Food Quality and Nutrition Aimed at Health: A Biological Perspective
Biology is the science and profession for health. No other science is more closely connected with the dynamics of life and living systems, from the complexity level of single cells through to the high complexi...
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Address
The implementation of strategies that are industrially orientated in food production is causing a rapid and dramatic modification of the approach to agricultural issues. We are witnessing a sort of shift in pa...
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Working Group I
In Europe the positive links between basic research, the application of scientific knowledge for economic purposes and for the health of citizens have to be developed. This realisation can be justified especi...
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Working Group III
There is no doubt that there are intimate links between nutrition and health. And modern technologies in food production and processing, food regulations and the whole system of food surveillance and monitorin...
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Conclusions and Recommendations
The two-stage effort of ECBA to focus first its attention on the contributions to the symposium on “Food Quality, Nutrition and Health” from experts and then to extract some valuable information for the discus...
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Welcoming and Opening Address to the Symposium
I would like to welcome you to our international symposium in my home town. For the Dr. Rainer Wild-Stiftung it is a great honour to organise this event together with the European Countries Biologists Associat...
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European Agro-Food Research
The European Community possesses enormous research potential in the field of life science and technology.
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Food Quality in a Changing Social Environment: A Historical Perspective
Today, food quality is undoubtedly one of the basic concepts of nutritional science. The Food Science and Technology Abstracts contain not less than 18,849 titles regarding issues of food quality for the perio...
