14-1190b-innovation-managing-risk-evidence

Only three GM crops have been approved for
commercial cultivation in Europe since 1990; in the
United States, there have been 96 commercial GM
approvals since 1990; Australia has approved 12 GM
crops since 2002.
96
3
12
127
100nm
More complex, lengthy and
expensive regulatory systems mean
that innovation is dominated by large
multinational companies.
In 2004, the
British Standards
Institution pioneered
the development of
the first international
standards committee on
nanotechnologies.