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Environmental impact of biotech crops
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | Agriculture will inevitably always have a significant impact on the environment. For biotech crops to be accepted by the regulatory process, it is a statutory requirement in most countries to complete an environmental impact assessment. The assessment includes determining the frequency and potential impact of gene flow by pollination, the effects on friendly nontarget organisms within the environment, the consequences of introducing particular genes, and, in some countries, a consideration of the effect of biotech crops on wildlife biodiversity. Assessing environmental impact raises many important challenges, because frequently we are required to make assessments of a kind that have rarely been carried out for conventionally |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.biobees.com/library/research_other/GM/environ_impact_gm_crops.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
