1 safe·ty noun \ ˈ sāf-tē\ plural safeties Definition of SAFETY 1 : the condition of being safe from undergoing or causing hurt, injury, or loss 2 : a device (as on a weapon or a machine) designed to prevent inadvertent or hazardous operation 3 a (1) : a situation in football in which a member of the offensive team is tackled behind its own goal line that counts two points for the defensive team — compare touchback (2) : a member of a defensive backfield in football who occupies the deepest position in order to receive a kick, defend against a forward pass, or stop a ballcarrier b : a billiard shot made with no attempt to score or so as to leave the balls in an unfavorable position for the opponent c : base hit See safety defined for English-language learners » See safety defined for kids » Examples of SAFETY The changes were made in the interest of public safety . He made some suggestions about how to improve airline safety . I'm worried about the safety of the people who were left behind. We were reluctant to leave the relative safety of our hotel. She was only a mile from the safety of her home when the accident occurred. The car has been redesigned for improved safety . The toys are inspected for safety . They were led to safety by the rescuers. The injured hiker was finally able to reach safety . Origin of SAFETY Middle English saufte, from Anglo-French salveté, saufté, from salf safe First Known Use: 14th century Related to SAFETY Synonyms protection , safeness , security Antonyms danger , distress , endangerment , imperilment , jeopardy , peril , trouble Related Words aegis ( also egis ), cover , defense , guardianship , ward ; guard , safeguard , screen , shield ; asylum , harbor , haven , refuge , retreat , shelter ; impregnability , impregnableness , invincibility , invincibleness , inviolability , inviolableness , invulnerability , invulnerableness Near Antonyms hazard , risk , threat ; instability , precariousness ; harm's way ; exposure , liability , openness , violability , vulnerability , vulnerableness ; susceptibility , susceptibleness more Other Baseball Terms alley , cleanup , nightcap , save , shag 2 safety transitive verb safe·tied safe·ty·ing Definition of SAFETY : to protect against failure, breakage, or accident safety a rifle First Known Use of SAFETY 1927 safety noun (Concise Encyclopedia) Activities that seek to minimize or to eliminate hazardous conditions that can cause bodily injury. Occupational safety is concerned with risks in areas where people work: offices, manufacturing plants, farms, construction sites, and commercial and retail facilities. Public safety is concerned with hazards in the home, in travel and recreation, and in other situations that do not fall within the scope of occupational safety. Learn More About SAFETY Thesaurus: All synonyms and antonyms for safety Spanish Central: Spanish translation of safety Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about safety Browse Next Word in the Dictionary: safety arch Previous Word in the Dictionary: safe sex All Words Near: safety Seen Heard
What is safety science? Terje Aven , University of Stavanger, 4036 Stavanger, Norway AbstractThis paper addresses the issue of how to understand safety science as a concept. Several definitions of safety are reviewed and discussed, including the interpretations that safety is the absence of undesirable events and accidents and that safety is the antonym of risk. Reflections are also made on what science means in relation to safety. It is argued that safety science can be viewed as knowledge about safety related issues, and the development of concepts, theories, principles and methods to understand, assess, communicate and manage (in a broad sense) safety. In addition we may speak about science safety as a discipline, covering the totality of relevant educational programmes, journals, papers, researchers, research groups and societies, etc. Article Outline 1. Introduction 2. Review and discussion of common definitions of safety 3. General reflections on what science means 4. Discussion of how to understand “Safety science” 5. Scientific journals 6. Knowledge about safety related phenomena, processes etc. 6.1. Risk assessment example 7. Conclusions Acknowledgments References
Andrew Hopkins Australian National University, School of Sociology, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Abstract This paper deals with three issues. First, the question of the boundaries of safety science – what is in and what is out – is a practical question that journal editors and reviewers must respond to. I have suggested that there is no once-and-for-all answer. The boundaries are inherently negotiable, depending on the make-up of the safety science community. The second issue is the problematic nature of some of the most widely referenced theories or theoretical perspective in our inter-disciplinary field, in particular, normal accident theory, the theory of high reliability organisations , and resilience engineering. Normal accident theory turns out to be a theory that fails to explain any real accident. HRO theory is about why HROs perform as well as they do, and yet it proves to be impossible to identify empirical examples of HROs for the purpose of either testing or refining the theory. Resilience engineering purports to be something new, but on examination it is hard to see where it goes beyond HRO theory. The third issue concerns the paradox of major accident inquiries. The bodies that carry out these inquiries do so for the purpose of learning lessons and making recommendations about how to avoid such incidents in the future. The paradox is that the logic of accident causal analysis does not lead directly to recommendations for prevention. Strictly speaking recommendations for prevention depend on additional argument or evidence going beyond the confines of the particular accident. Highlights ► The boundaries of the field of “safety science” are inherently unclear. ► Normal accident theory, resilience theory and HRO theory are all problematic. ► Logic of accident analysis does not lead directly to recommendations for prevention. Keywords Causation ; Accident analysis ; Theory ; Reviewing 1-s2.0-S0925753513000210-main.pdf
The nature of safety culture: a reviewof theory and research F.W. Guldenmund Safety Science Group, DelftUniversity of Technology, Kanaalweg 2b, NL-2628 EB Delft, The Netherland The nature of safety culture.pdf
查看了下 Safety Science ，以前去那里基本都没看，这次认真读了下其简介的部分内容，感觉对国内的安全刊物没准还有点借鉴意义： Safety Science serves as an internationalmedium for research in the science and technology of human safety. It extendsfrom safety of people at work to other spheres, such as transport, leisure andhome, as well as every other field of man's hazardous activities. Safety Science 是一本国际性学术期刊，主要涉及人们的安全问题。目前，其内容已经从工作安全(职业安全)扩展到更广泛领域的安全问题，如交通安全、休闲、家庭生活中的安全等。事实上，人类活动中所遇到的任何危险、有害方面，都是本刊的涉及范围（ 这一段是说 Safety Science 所涉及的安全问题所在的行业或者领域 ）。 Safety Science is multidisciplinary. Itscontributors and its audience range from psychologists to chemical engineers.The journal covers the physics and engineering of safety; its social, policyand organisational aspects; the management of risks; the effectiveness of controltechniques for safety; standardization, legislation, inspection, insurance,costing aspects, human behaviour and safety and the like. 安全科学（ Safety Science ）是一本多学科交叉的学术刊物，其作者和读者可能有心理学家也可能有化学工程师。本期刊的论文内容涉及安全的物理、工程方面，社会、政策方面，组织特性等；也涉及风险管理、安全措施的有效性、安全标准化、安全法规、安全检查、保险、安全成本、行为等这一类的内容（ 这一段是说 Safety Science 所涉及的、解决安全问题的手段或者研究方法 ）。 思考：投往 SafetyScience 的文章，既可以是社会科学、管理方面的，也可以是自然科学、工程技术方面的，但都必须有比较系统的研究背景、严谨的理论或概念或方法设计、充分的数据支持，否则是不能发表的，也没必要投稿。
期刊名称 ISSN 学科分类 来源数据库 起止时间 Accident Analysis Prevention ☆ 0001-4575 PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY Elsevier ScienceDirect 1995 to present Health Beauty Salon 0261-4146 BEAUTY CULTURE OCLC - WilsonSelectPlus 2002 to 2004 Industrial Safety Hygiene News 8755-2566 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY EBSCOhost - Business Source Premier 01/2001 to present Injury Control Safety Promotion 1566-0974 CONSUMER EDUCATIONAND PROTECTION EBSCOhost - Academic Source Premier 03/2000 to 12/2004 Job Safety and Health Quarterly 1057-5820 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY OCLC - WilsonSelectPlus 1998 to 2003 Journal of Safety Research ☆ 0022-4375 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY Elsevier ScienceDirect 1995 to present Professional Safety 0099-0027 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY OCLC - WilsonSelectPlus 1997 to present Professional Safety 0099-0027 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY EBSCOhost - MasterFILE Premier 07/1997 to present Professional Safety 0099-0027 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY EBSCOhost - Business Source Premier 07/1997 to present Professional Safety 0099-0027 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY EBSCOhost - Academic Source Premier 07/1997 to present Risk: Health, Safety Environment 1073-8673 PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY OCLC - WilsonSelectPlus 1998 to 2002 Safety Compliance Letter 1069-2037 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY EBSCOhost - Business Source Premier 06/2003 to present Safety Director's Report 1524-1564 PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY EBSCOhost - Business Source Premier 01/2001 to 12/2004 Safety Management 1069-2118 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY EBSCOhost - Business Source Premier 02/1999 to 03/2003 Safety Science ☆ 0925-7535 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY Elsevier ScienceDirect 1995 to present
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Behavior-based safety (BBS) is the "application of science of behavior change to real world problems". BBS "focuses on what people do, analyzes why they do it, and then applies a research-supported intervention strategy to improve what people do". At its very core BBS is based on a larger scientific field called Organizational Behavior Analysis. To be successful a BBS program must include all employees, from the CEO to the floor associates. To achieve changes in behavior, a change in policy, procedures and/or systems most assuredly will also need some change. Those changes cannot be done without buy-in and support from all involved in making those decisions. BBS is not based on assumptions, personal feeling, and/or common knowledge. To be successful, the BBS program used must be based on scientific knowledge. A good BBS program will consist of: Common goals – Both employee and managerial involvement in the process Definition of what is expected – Specifications of target behaviors derived form safety assessments Observational data collection Decisions about how best to proceed based on those data Feedback to associates being observed Review All of the BBS programs reviewed included multilevel teams. Some programs use them in the assessment phase, some in observation and some in review. Some had all three areas using multilevel teams. Some argue that behavior-based safety must also have attitude adjustment to be sustaining as it has been proven that "behavior influences attitude and attitude influences behavior". The goal should be small gains over and over again; continuous growth. BBS is not a quick fix. It is a commitment. There are numerous programs on how to implement behavior-based safety programs. They vary in price, detail and commitment. But the goal is always the same: eliminate injury. A review of all scientific publications on behavior-based safety since the mid 1970s to date shows that different approaches exert different effects. Focusing on workgroups, in static settings was demonstrated to be the most efficient at behavior change and injury reduction. Different configurations of the design elements also affects the Return on Investment, with one producing $1.7 million, per 200,000 hours worked, while another loses $2 million per 200,000 hours worked.
To many Chinese, food is not only the first necessity, but also represents their proud culture and long history. However, a slew of high profile food safety scandals in the past few years has seriously challenged public confidence in the domestic food industry. One of the most infamous incidents in 2008 was melamine-adulterated milk and powered infant formula, which affected about 300000 babies and resulted in at least six infant deaths. With the forthcoming 2012 London Olympic Games, to minimise the risk of accidental doping from clenbuterol-tainted meat, the Chinese women's volleyball team has adopted a strict vegetarian diet. Unlike major food safety problems in developed countries, China's recurrent problems with food contamination are not due to unintended infectious agents or environmental toxins, but to illegal chemical additives purposely introduced into the food chain. In most cases, the underlying reason is the pursuit of profit. China has struggled with food safety issues for years. In 2003, the State Food and Drug Administration of China (SFDA) was founded to consolidate food and drug regulation. In 2009, the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China came into effect. In fact, there are already 1070 national food standards and 1164 industry-specific standards in China. Despite these efforts, “China still faces a grave situation in ensuring its food safety”, said Li Keqiang, Chinese vice Premier and head of the food safety commission, on Feb 8 this year. Why is it so hard for China to root out food scandals? First, the large number and diversity of food producers—most being small companies—makes it difficult to maintain high safety standards for all products. Second, the food safety management system is multilayered, with national, provincial, and local levels. At the national regulatory level alone, there are 14 different departments involved including SFDA, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Commerce. This complexity has posed considerable problems for efficient collaboration and coordination between agencies, while specification of responsibilities and identification of clear chains of accountability between different levels remain additional concerns. Third, while many food manufacturers operate at local levels, local governments may lack the capacity or incentive to establish effective supervision and enforcement of regulations and legislation. In addition to weak surveillance, corruption is a risk and the cost of violating the law is relatively low. On July 3, food safety became a national priority, when the Chinese Cabinet—State Council pledged to solve food safety problems in 3 years and to improve food safety monitoring, surveillance, and legislation within 5 years. For the first time, food safety will be used as a performance indicator for local governments' annual assessments. Harsher punishments have been emphasised. A database monitoring the food industry's safety records and a list of offending food manufacturers will be created. The surveillance roles of the public and the media are also acknowledged. Whistleblowers reporting illegal practices will be encouraged and rewarded. To increase public awareness and understanding of food safety, relevant education and training will be incorporated into public services and courses for middle and primary schools. Foodborne disease surveillance systems will be strengthened. Food safety is receiving high-level political attention in China. Yet the plan falls short on details about how to define success or failure. The target, though timely, is not easy to gauge without specific indicators. Overlapping responsibilities across the various regulatory bodies remain. There is a lack of practical means to ensure the implementation of foodborne disease surveillance system improvement. As reported by Ted Alcorn and Yadan Ouyang in The Lancet's 2012 special issue on China, only a minority of patients with food poisoning seek formal medical care, and so epidemiological investigation of outbreaks is not well developed and foodborne diseases are often invisible. In addition, boosting the training and research relevant to foodborne diseases for health professionals, essential for effective health-care services, needs to be put on the agenda. As China grows as a food exporter, domestic food safety issues will inevitably have global implications. China as a whole should be encouraged to meet global standards and regulations, as has Hong Kong. High-level political commitment is a welcome start, but similar statements in the past have not yet produced the high food quality that people in China should expect.
A ranking of safety journals using different measurement methods Genserik Reniers a , b , , , Yannick Anthone a a Faculty of Applied Economic Sciences, Research Group ARGoSS, University of Antwerp, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium b Centre for Economics and Corporate Sustainability (CEDON), HUB, KULeuven, Stormstraat 2, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Abstract: Using an online survey, we asked safety researchers around the globe how they perceived the quality of a list of 35 representative safety journals . We found that the most well-respected journal by expert opinion was the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. However, taking both the respondents’ results and the citation-based results into consideration, the Journal of Hazardous Materials is the most influential journal , followed by Reliability Engineering and System Safety , Risk Analysis, Accident Analysis and Prevention and Safety Science. Highlights Safety journals ’ perceived quality- and 1-year IF- rankings were uncorrelated. Safety journals ’ perceived quality- and 5-year IF- rankings were correlated. Top 5 of safety journals was determined w.r.t. objective and subjective criteria. Keywords Safety journals ; Ranking ; Journal quality; Journal evaluation; Perception; Impact factor A ranking of safety journals using different measurement methods.pdf
I am not surprised by this report. http://www.cnbc.com/id/46363667 As I am planning for my first trip to India, this news does not help. Sure, I can eat and drink the minimum, which may be a great opportunity to lose some weight.
Call for innovative research ideas to answering four key food safety challenges Wednesday 10 August 2011 The Food Standards Agency is inviting researchers to come up with innovative approaches to answering four key food safety challenges. The Agency usually issues calls for evidence to address specific research questions, but is piloting this new approach to commissioning research to identify innovative approaches and provide significant leaps forward in addressing our strategic challenges. Four challenges have been identified: · ensuring imported food is safe to eat, including early identification of emerging risks · using novel methods in managing outbreaks of foodborne disease · improving compliance of food businesses with food safety laws · obtaining better data on costs to industry that will be used to inform Agency policies To find out more about these research opportunities, you will need to register as a supplier on the Agency’s electronic tendering system at the link below. Procurement
By Han Lewu http://www.f-paper.com/?i320058-Why-use-the-agent-that-the-agent-is Posted:May 27,2011 Views:7 Subscribe: Do not use a lot of external resources for its success in maintaining soil fertility and health. This is a hundred years ago, China's agriculture in Western agronomists found the most amazing place. But today, China's agriculture is on the road to industrialization by the large chemical fertilizer large pesticides, herbicides, additives, plastic sheeting and other running all the way coerced. Now we are bogged down in the food security dilemma can not extricate themselves. Experts have warned that, should reflect our current agricultural production? 'White terror' The 'white pollution', people tend to more concerned about the disposable plastic lunch boxes and the city shopping bags used. But the reporter was informed that currently there are about 500,000 tons of plastic sheeting year remains in the soil, plastic film rate of 40%. Agriculture film production in the agricultural use does not take into account a large number of the degradation problems, the ecological environment of China paid a heavy price, to accelerate the land of 'death( http://www.f-paper.com/).' 'I have a few field trips in ten countries, had never seen a country like ours, in a big way to promote the application of plastic sheeting, the country with mountains and rivers of a 'white'.' Jiang Gaoming researcher at the Institute of Botany says. Long-term commitment of degraded ecosystems and rehabilitation of degraded farmland Jiang GM, told reporters a few days ago I start to see him in some rural areas was almost clear of a white plastic film covered farmland, hillside scene, the use of 'white terror' to describe. According to Jiang Gaoming introduced a large number of residues in the soil in the plastic sheeting, 15-20 cm soil layer in the formation of hard permeable, breathable layer of hard farming. Some of his life and concluded: probably seven generations, 140 years is also degradation can not afford. In Jiang Gaoming view, plastic sheeting is the most rubbish inventions of modern agriculture(News News http://www.f-paper.com/ ). People use it to be part of the increase resulting from dependence. Hoeing in the departure from the traditional approach, without organic manure, straw and other support, the covering layer of plastic sheeting to achieve the insulation, water, weeding, pesticides and other purposes, appear to be no better thing, but actually paid a heavy price, is accelerating land 'death.' tantamount to 'get its eggs.' 'Red lines' and endangered Reporters were told that since the last century since the late 70s, just a few decades, China's cultivated land there is a clear decline in fertility, the national average of less than 1% of soil organic matter. And at the same time, China's chemical fertilizer and the growth rate is surprised. According to Jiang Gaoming, the international recognized safety limits application of chemical fertilizer is 225 kg / ha, but the average per unit area of application of chemical fertilizers reached 434.3 kg / ha, 1.93 times the safe limit. Provided from the average application rate of fertilizer chart shows changes in the last century, the age of 50 hectares (15 acres) of land more than 8 kg of chemical fertilizer is now 868 pounds. To a hundred times the speed increase. 'But these fertilizer utilization rate is only around 40%. Did not run out, have become contaminated.' Jiang Gaoming said. Jiang Gaoming that maintaining the current food production, to pesticides and fertilizers, the application rate by half is sufficient. There are a number for Jiang Gaoming to heart:China's factory farm animals produce 2.7 billion tons of animal waste every year, about 3.5 times the industrial solid waste. But separation of breeding and cultivation and other reasons, they could have become very good fertilizers, animal wastes should not use the place. results 'on the one hand agricultural non-point source pollution, on the one hand mass production of fertilizers. Both are due benefits or reduce. Victims are cultivated with consumers.' Jiang Gaoming said. In fact, even without a direct result of chemical fertilizer and pesticide pollution, irrigation and other industrial and mining waste water sewage pollution on the land have made it an indirect overwhelmed. According to the survey, the country's arable land contaminated about 1.5 million mu, accounting for almost the total area of cultivated land in China one-tenth. this insight calls, hold 18 million mu of arable land 'red line' not just hold their number, but also keep their health, cleanliness of the 'red line.' Where are we going? In Jiang Gaoming view, Investment in agriculture rely on a large number of chemical substances called the salient features of the so-called modern agriculture, harm many, unsustainable. It is not only a large number of mining exploration, oil, etc., so that increased pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, a large number of chemicals into arable land, causing land pollution, 'but the damage must not stop there, land pollution is also a serious threat to food, food security.' Jiang Gaoming said, 'around a circle, the ultimate land of toxic substances in the body to return to camp.' Recent reports 'cadmium rice' is an example. When the 'hoe Wo day when afternoon' type replaced the traditional farming methods, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, herbicides, additives, plastic sheeting and other modern agricultural 'conventional weapons', the Jiang Gaoming that 'industrialization of agriculture has been greatly shaken our The agriculture. ' When the cause of watermelon 'explosion' is the leavening agent known to the public, people puzzled 'why use it' because it is clear that this is contrary to the laws of plant growth. However, contrary to the laws of nature similar phenomenon in agricultural production everywhere, just as Jiang Gaoming cited: in-season fruit and vegetable production, exacerbated by drug residues in agricultural products, animals, 'crash course' to chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry class life cycle shortened to 28-45 days, the pigs reduced to 2.5-4 months. 'These serious breaches of the law of planting and breeding biology model inundation, so that a variety of pesticides, hormones and food additives, filled with urban and rural areas.' People are confused: the source of our food - the primary agricultural products, have been subjected to such a chemical production, industrialization of the 'baptism', dare again in food processing, transport or preservation without restraint or even added a variety of chemical agents non-toxic and hazardous substances consumed? we really want to go? Legal Daily (Korean Music Wu)
According to NOAA, the seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is still safe to eat, where the oil spill has been ongoing since April 20, 2010. The news link is at NOAA: Gulf seafood tested so far is safe to eat It says: NOAA and the Food and Drug Administration began catching seafood species in the Gulf within days of the April 20 BP rig explosion off Louisiana that generated a massive oil spill. The agency is mostly looking for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, the most common carcinogenic components of crude oil. If you have been paying a little attention to the accident, you may also have heard that chemicals have been used to make the crude oil dissolve quickly. So, shouldn't NOAA and FDA also test for such chemicals? Do we know how these chemicals may affect human health in 5-10 years? More and more, seafood packages in the US supermarket indicate where the products came from. I like seafood, but I will NOT eat any from the gulf for a long time. Because I don't want NOAA or FDA to apologize to me 10 years from now: We are very sorry that we made a big mistake in telling you the seafood from the gulf was safe to eat. Common sense tells me it's NOT safe, period.
2010-02-04 12:27:58 GMT 2010-02-04 20:27:58 (Beijing Time) China Daily A farmer smiles after a good harvest of the high-yielding super rice in Tiantai, Zhejiang province. The government is expected to approve commercial planting of genetically modified (GM) rice in three to five years as a major effort to raise food supply. Huang Dafang, a member of the Biosafety Committee at the Ministry of Agriculture, said the nation -- which faces shrinking farmland and an increasing population -- will turn to genetically modified organism technology to ensure grain security. In November, the ministry issued biosafety certificates to strains of pest-resistant GM rice and corn. The announcement has aroused debate on the Internet with several forums soliciting signatures against commercialization of GM rice with the call Saving our posterity. The strains need registration and production trials before commercial output can begin, which may take three to five years, Huang told China Daily. The issue of biosafety certificates has great implications as it is the first time a major grain producer is endorsing the use of GM technology in a food staple, said Xue Dayuan, professor of biotechnology at Minzu University of China. Xue said that he is worried about the health and environmental risks involved in the planting of GM rice although he personally does not oppose to its commercialization. The government has set a target of increasing grain output by 50 million tons between 2009 and 2020. The current annual average production is 60 million tons. Once GM technology is used for mass production, it would definitely help China achieve that target and feed its 1.3 billion people, said Huang, also a researcher with the Biotechnology Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The use of GM technology is an inevitable trend for the global agriculture industry, including in China, he stressed, adding that it has been scientifically proven that the approved GM strains are as safe as non-genetically modified varieties. Currently, 10 percent of the non-genetically modified rice output is lost annually to pests, and that means the loss can be avoided with wide use of the technology, he noted. The two GM rice strains, developed by Huazhong Agricultural University, would help reduce the use of pesticide by 80 percent while raising yields by as much as 8 percent, said Huang Jikun, chief scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The ministry granted safety certificates to other GM crops cotton in 1998 and tomato and pepper in 1999. The United States is also a major developer of GM crops and most of the country's soybean and cotton are from GM strains. But a rice strain which has been given approval for cultivation has not yet seen widespread use. But given the controversy over the safety of GM food for a long time, such crops are not accepted in most countries worldwide, said Fang Lifeng, spokesman for Greenpeace Chinas GM program. A 2007 survey by the organization found that 65 percent of the 2,000 people polled in the country said they would not choose GM food over safety concerns. We firmly oppose the technology being put into mass production and commercialization in a rush, Fang said. To ensure food supply, we have other options with no potential health risks like biological agriculture, he noted. The stamp of approval might have been premature, said Professor Jiang Gaoming, at Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Botany. GM corn sold by Monsanto, the US-based agriculture company, causes organ damage in rats, mostly in the liver and kidney, according to a paper by three French scientists published in the International Journal of Biological Sciences.
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