NABC 8: An Overview
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market opportunities and the prospect of revolutionary medical, food, and other products that will change our lives. However, biotechnology’s critics have long expressed concern that the unpredictability of the effects of such changes are reasons for prudence and caution. In spite of some false starts, unrealistic expectations, and unfulfilled promises, recombinant DNA biotechnology is now maturing as an important discipline that will underpin much of our biological research and development during the next century. Surprising to some is the important role of agricultural biotechnology to not only the food and feed industry, but also to the chemical, pharmaceutical, environmental, and energy industries, as new products are emerging in these marketplaces. Agricultural biotechnology is beginning to act as a matchmaker for some unexpected marriages between sectors. The National Agricultural Biotechnology Council’s (NABC) eighth annual meeting — Agricultural Biotechnology: Novel Products and New Partnerships — held at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey on June 4–7, 1996, debated the social, ethical, economic, research, development, and commercialization issues and opportunities that the new products of biotechnology pose for consumers, farmers, industry, public interest groups, government, and universities. Asked to be provocative and to speculate, 14 plenary speakers from the public and the food, pharmaceutical, and environmental and energy sectors set the stage for intensive workshop discussions of the social and ethical issues raised by new products and the opportunities for structural and economic changes. Following the plenary sessions, participants in three workshops tackled a set of tough questions from the viewpoints of the food industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and the environmental and energy sector. NABC 8: An Overview
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تاریخ انتشار 2013