Scientific mistakes from the agri-food biotech critics

AbstractCritics of the use of advanced biotechnologies in the agri-food sector ( "New Breeding Techniques", comprising CRISPR) demand a strict regulation of any such method, even more severe than rules applied to so-called "Genetically Modified Organisms" (i.e. recombinant DNA processes and products). But their position is unwarranted, since it relies on faulty arguments .While most life scientists have always explained that the trigger for regulation should be the singleproduct and its phenotypic traits, opponents insist that the target should be certain biotechprocesses.The antagonists maintain that NBTs are inherently risky: this belief is exactly the opposite of a long-standing, overwhelming scientific consensus. NBTs involve unpredictable effects, but it is the same for the re...

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