Bacillus thuringiensis: ecology, the significance of natural genetic modification, and regulation

✍ Scribed by C. Morris-Coole

• Book ID: 104705343
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 787 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-0972
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00286354

✦ Synopsis

Legislation and regulation in respect of genetically modified microorganisms must be based on rick-assessment principles rather than on the current European concept of pathogenicity, which is a measure of hazard. Natural genetic modification has commerical attractions where the processes can be exempted from regulation. Bacillus thuringiensis is used to illustrate this in the context of the European Directives and UK regulation.