| Zmarak Shalizi - 2003 - 276 pages
...environmental or food hazards, the precautionary principle, Box 5.7 The precautionary principle • When an activity raises threats of harm to human health...precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause-and-effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. • The proponent of an activity,... | |
| Tom Sanders, Peter Emery - 2003 - 180 pages
...low but in this case the USA have applied the precautionary principle which is defined as follows: 'When an activity raises threats of harm to human...precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause-and -effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.' The BSE episode particularly... | |
| Ramanan Laxminarayan - 2003 - 406 pages
...the regulation of GMOs. Although many versions of the principle exist, a succinct version states that when an activity raises threats of harm to human health...precautionary measures should be taken even if some causeand-effect relationships are not established scientifically (Goklany 2000). A stringent and controversial... | |
| Richard A. Hindmarsh, Geoffrey Lawrence - 2004 - 254 pages
...approach to assessing the release of GE crops would incorporate the precautionary principle, which states: When an activity raises threats of harm to human health...relationships are not fully established scientifically. In this context, the proponent of an activity, rather than the public should bear the burden of proof.... | |
| John E. Blodgett - 2004 - 82 pages
...environmental activists developed the Wingspread Statement on the Precautionary Principle which says, in part, "when an activity raises threats of harm to human...relationships are not fully established scientifically. In this context the proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof."42... | |
| Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman - 2004 - 228 pages
...instance, in Racine, Wisconsin, in 1998, the Wingspread Conference on the Precautionary Principle avowed, "When an activity raises threats of harm to human...relationships are not fully established scientifically. In this context the proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof"... | |
| Rosie Cooney - 2004 - 68 pages
...broader debate on precaution and provides a useful counterpoint. It includes the following definition: "When an activity raises threats of harm to human...relationships are not fully established scientifically. In this context the proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof... | |
| Rachel Stein - 2004 - 198 pages
...in the statement that grew out of the 1998 Wingspread Conference in Racine, Wisconsin, which avows, "When an activity raises threats of harm to human...relationships are not fully established scientifically. In this context the proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof"... | |
| Gary Elvin Marchant, Kenneth L. Mossman - 2004 - 112 pages
...considerations. This version of the precautionary principle states, "When an activity raises threats of harms to human health or the environment, precautionary...and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically"38 The European Commission has offered yet a third variation with respect to consideration... | |
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