created to establish and maintain control over the products designed

I. The existing laws and regulations that govern the release of

transgenic organisms are inadequate or nonexistent.

A. The developed nations of the world are using regulations that were

designed to control and monitor crops created with traditional

B. Biotechnology is regulated by three different agencies.

C. The undeveloped nations have virtually no regulations governing

1. This indicates that biotechnological research can and is being

conducted in these countries without regulation.

2. There are many biotech companies based in developed countries that

have branches or joint ventures around the world.

II. The potential risks of transgenic organisms to the environment is

A. Some experts warn that there is a danger that biotechnology can

B. Biotechnology has the potential to harm the economies of some

C. The last and possible the most important argument for an

international biosafety protocol is in the name of ignorance and cau

engineered animals are essentially unregulated" (9).

countries opposed to the biosafety protocol.

cocoa butter . . . " (qtd in Moffat 187) then these products can be

grown on a large scale. If a product of transgenic origin is to be

University sociologist, if it becomes feasible ". . . to use plant cell

Defense Fund, ". . . warns that other companies may follow through only

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