Problemática de la Normativa Comunitaria en lo concerniente a la manipulación genética de los alimentos

Abstract

It is not easy to find a balanced position when analysing the so-called bio-technologies. Even though the economic perspectives which have been considered are vast, and the perspectives of improvement in human welfare are also seducing, the environmental, health risks are equally enormous, as are the ethical and political problems that are outlined. Nevertheless, genetic manipulation can not by principle be rejected. Criticism should be differentiated according to the various fields of application, and the requirements of a more severe social control than the one currently in practice are to be established. However, the new European Community regulation on genetic manipulation of foods is clearly insufficient at such levels.