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conducting careful and well-balanced analyses of potential risks and benefits
for biological control projects in the future, keeping in mind that all plant protection
methods as well as the ‘doing nothing’ strategy bear risks and benefits
which all need to be evaluated and weighed up against each other. Clearly, the
value of such analyses much depends on our knowledge on the potential for
non-target effects as well as on the potential benefits. It further depends on
our scale of rating of risks. In view of the current shift towards a ‘risk-free
world’ and overly stringent regulations, there might even be a risk that
promising agents will not be developed because the potential of non-target
effects is judged too high.
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