Biotechnology and the Consumer: A research project sponsored by the Office of Consumer Affairs of Industry Canada

Biotechnology is a rapidly developing sector of the economy for countries throughout the world. This rapid development has led to heated debate over its risks and benefits. Advocates of biotechnology point to the potential benefits offered by products that promise to elimi­ nate disease, provide for more efficient diagnostic techniques, treatments and drugs, yield increased food production, and so forth. Others fear that the rapid developments of this technology have occurred without approp...