EU Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) Legal Systeme and Food Safety - Focused on the Decision-making System for Approval of GM Food Safety -

We experimentally test whether expert organizations on social media can correct misperceptions of the scientific consensus on the safety of genetically modified (GM) food for human consumption, as well as what role social media cues, in the form of “likes,” play in that process. We find expert organizations highlighting scientific consensus on GM food safety reduces consensus misperceptions among the public, leading to lower GM misperceptions and boosting related consumption behaviors in line with the gateway belief model. Expert organizations’ credibility may increase as a result of correction, but popularity cues do not seem to affect misperceptions or credibility.

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Debunking Misinformation About Genetically Modified Food Safety on Social Media: Can Heuristic Cues Mitigate Biased Assimilation?

Science Communication ◽

10.1177/10755470211022024 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107554702110220

Author(s):

Yuan Wang

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Food Safety ◽

Experimental Design ◽

Genetically Modified ◽

Genetically Modified Food ◽

Gm Food ◽

Social Endorsement ◽

Biased Assimilation ◽

Source Cues

Focusing on debunking misinformation about genetically modified (GM) food safety in a social media context, this study examines whether source cues and social endorsement cues interact with individuals’ preexisting beliefs about GM food safety in influencing misinformation correction effectiveness. Using an experimental design, this study finds that providing corrective messages can effectively counteract the influence of misinformation, especially when the message is from an expert source and receives high social endorsements. Participants evaluate misinformation and corrective messages in a biased way that confirms their preexisting beliefs about GM food safety. However, their initial misperceptions can be reduced when receiving corrective messages.

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Are science festivals a good place to discuss heated topics?

Journal of Science Communication ◽

10.22323/2.19010207 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (01) ◽

pp. A07 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sacha Altay ◽

Camille Lakhlifi

Keyword(s):

Food Safety ◽

Small Groups ◽

Genetically Modified ◽

Scientific Evidence ◽

Public Acceptance ◽

The Public ◽

Positive Shift ◽

Good Place ◽

Gm Food ◽

Controversial Nature

Public acceptance of vaccination and Genetically Modified (GM) food is low and opposition is stiff. During two science festivals in France, we discussed in small groups the scientific evidence and current consensus on the benefits of vaccination and GM food safety. Our interventions reinforced people's positive opinions on vaccination and produced a drastic positive shift of GM food opinions. Despite the controversial nature of the topics discussed, there were very few cases of backfire effects among the 175 participants who volunteered. These results should encourage scientists to engage more often with the public during science festivals, even on heated topics.

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FOOD SAFETY OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM ACCORDING TO INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN INDONESIA

Lampung Journal of International Law ◽

10.25041/lajil.v2i1.2031 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Risa Mahdewi ◽

Desia Rakhma Banjarani

Keyword(s):

Food Safety ◽

International Law ◽

Human Health ◽

Genetically Modified ◽

Well Being ◽

Genetically Modified Organism ◽

Cartagena Protocol ◽

Modern Biotechnology ◽

Biodiversity Convention ◽

Biotechnology Products

Modern biotechnology products have provided considerable benefits for improving human life and well-being, both in the agriculture, food, industry and human health sectors, as well as in the environmental field. But there are concerns that modern biotechnology products, in addition to providing benefits, also have risks that have adverse impacts on the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and human health. Therefore, steps need to be taken, both legally, administratively, and technology to ensure the level of biological safety.This study aims to explain and analyze the safety of Genetically Modified Organism or GMO according to international law and their implementation in Indonesia. The problem approach used in this research is normative law (library research). The data used are secondary data obtained from international, national legal regulations and literature data related to material that supports discussion of the problem. Analysis of the data used is descriptive qualitative.The results of research on food safety of Genetically Modified Organism or GMO according to international law, are regulations on food safety of genetically engineered products regulated in the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The laws and regulations governing GMO food in Indonesia are good enough because they have carried out the mandate and did not deviate from the biodiversity convention and Cartagena protocol by passing legislation regulations from the legal level to the decision level of the head of BPOM. It’s just that for rules regarding GMO food that is sold in retail, or that is not in the form of packaging, there is still no technical rules that can answer the problems in the field.

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Legal and political hybridity of the European Union – genetically modified organisms’ case

10.31338/1641-2478pe.3.20.8 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 125-144

Author(s):

Monika Szkarłat

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

European Union ◽

Genetically Modified Organisms ◽

Genetically Modified ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

The European Union ◽

Gm Plants ◽

Decision Making System ◽

Modern Biotechnology ◽

The Eu

The European Union can be described as a particular hybrid integration structure that combines features of a state and intergovernmental organisation. Its institutional framework, legal system and division of competences are examples of a supranational organisation or a transnational decision-making system. The decision-making process is an outcome of network interactions between multiple actors, whose relations are non-hierarchically ordered. Genetically modified organisms (GMO) as an example of modern biotechnology application is a highly polarising subject in the EU, as well as globally. Thus, the policy towards GMO is an exemplification of legal and political hybridity of the EU. The analysis of the EU’s legal and political hybridity will be narrowed down to the GM plants case and methodologically organised around the concept of decision-making analysis that is composed of five categories: decision-making situation, actors, decision-making process, decision, implementation of the decision

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Are Science Festivals a Good Place to Discuss Heated Topics?

10.31219/osf.io/et7nx ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Sacha Altay ◽

Camille LAKHLIFI

Keyword(s):

Food Safety ◽

Small Groups ◽

Genetically Modified ◽

Scientific Evidence ◽

Public Acceptance ◽

The Public ◽

Positive Shift ◽

Good Place ◽

Gm Food ◽

Controversial Nature

Public acceptance of vaccination and Genetically Modified (GM) food is low and opposition is stiff. During two science festivals in France, we discussed in small groups the scientific evidence and current consensus on the benefits of vaccination and GM food safety. Our interventions reinforced people's positive opinions on vaccination and produced a drastic positive shift of GM food opinions. Despite the controversial nature of the topics discussed, there were very few cases of backfire effects among the 175 participants who volunteered. These results should encourage scientists to engage more often with the public during science festivals, even on heated topics.

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Genetically Modified (GM) Food Safety

Pesticide Chemistry ◽

10.1002/9783527611249.ch38 ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 361-372

Author(s):

Gijs A. Kleter ◽

Harry A. Kuiper

Keyword(s):

Food Safety ◽

Genetically Modified ◽

Gm Food

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Genes in food – why the furore?

Biochemical Society Transactions ◽

10.1042/bst0310299 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 299-306 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

B. Dixon

Keyword(s):

Genetically Modified ◽

Antibiotic Resistance Genes ◽

Genetically Modified Organism ◽

Environmental Risks ◽

Gm Crops ◽

The Public ◽

Gm Food ◽

Playing God ◽

The Media ◽

Nutritional Benefits

Although unprecedented and perhaps unique in its irrationality, the recent furore over genetically modified (GM) food holds extremely important lessons for scientists. Some sections of the media undoubtedly bear a heavy responsibility for giving the expression ‘GM’ threatening connotations that are quite unwarranted. However, influential contributions to the hysteria have come from a surprising range of other sources, including some scientists. The research community has failed in its responsibility to society in three ways. Firstly, plant scientists did not appreciate that certain techniques (such as the use of antibiotic resistance genes as markers during plant transformation) would inevitably provoke public consternation. As a result, they took no steps to address such concerns. Secondly, researchers overlooked, minimized or in some cases simply dismissed the significance of public fears that they were ‘interfering with Nature’ or ‘playing God’. Thirdly, plant breeders apparently saw no need to take pro-active measures with regard to the media and public in placing potential environmental and nutritional benefits of GM crops on the agenda in a positive fashion. Partly because of this failure, GM food is now firmly established in the public mind as wholly objectionable. One measure of how far we have travelled down that road is that it hardly matters any more whether objections are based on alleged environmental risks of cultivating GM crops or alleged toxicological hazards of eating them. ‘Genetically modified organism’, like ‘radioactivity’, has become an odious, generic shibboleth. Given that millions of people throughout the world are already benefiting from pharmaceuticals made by GM organisms, this is bizarre.

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