U. S. Agricultural Research Service
Published: 2018-03-19
Total Pages: 24
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Excerpt from Risk Assessment Research, 1992-1994: An Overview of the Usda Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants Program Agricultural biotechnology offers significant promise for providing greater amounts of more nutritious, appealing foods at less cost to the natural environment. However, the products of agricultural biotechnology may pose risks to ecosystems or human health, and the traditional risk assessment process, which was developed primarily to assess the hazards associated with chemicals, cannot be easily applied to agricultural biotechnology. Thus, it was necessary to develop new approaches to assess the possible risks associated with the development and deployment of agricultural biotechnology products. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.