Herbicide in UK Law
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The glyphosate saga and the fading democratic legitimacy of European Union risk regulation
This article endeavours to explore the glyphosate saga through the prism of a socially acceptable risk approach to the governance of public health and environmental risks in the European Union. Aft...... ... Glyphosate has herbicide features, and is thus used as an active substance in herb icide products – most famously, Monsanto’s ubiquitous ‘Roundup’, 41 Dow ... ...
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On robots as genetically modified invasive species
Purpose: – This paper aims to explore similarities and differences between robots, invasive biological species, and genetically modified organisms. These comparisons are designed to better understa...... ... For instance, one of the major motivations of using GMO plants is to simplifyweed control. By using a GMO plant that resists a particular herbicide, farmers hope tokill all plants except the GMO plant with a single dose of the herbicide. However, overtime, weeds that are also resistant to the ... ...
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Will Biotechnology Feed the World's Hungry?
... ... In addition to insect resistance and herbicide tolerance, yield-enhancing traits cur- rently being field-tested include virus and disease-resistance and toler- ance to adverse ... ...
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Case C-616/17 Blaise and Others: The precautionary principle and its role in judicial review – Glyphosate and the regulatory framework for pesticides
The approval renewal of glyphosate as an active substance for pesticides in the EU has also kept the Court of Justice occupied. Within this line of case law, the Blaise case is the most recent one....... ... protection products, that is, the commercial formulation of the activesubstance with other co-formulants, like the glyphosate-containing herbicide Roundup, have to beauthorized in the Member States.This reference for a preliminary ruling originates in the Criminal Court of Foix (France), as ... ...
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Poisoning expertise and outcomes in malicious contamination incidents
Purpose: It is often assumed that poisoners and product tamperers are likely to share an interest in or knowledge of poisonous substances. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether perpetra...... ... For non-experts, rat poison[2] wasby far the most common substance used, followed by insecticide and herbicide more generally,as well as cyanide.For threats and hoaxes the non-experts most frequently claimed to have used some form ofbacteria, while experts ... ...
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Liability for the Escape of GM Seeds: Pursuing the ‘Victim’?
The widespread commercial cultivation of GM crops in the EU and the UK is getting closer. Intense concerns about the uncertain health and environmental effects of GM farming have been the subject o...... ... containing those genes, which when inserted in plants make them resistant to glyphosate herbicides, including Monsanto’s ‘Roundup’ herbicide. Monsanto claimed that its patent had been infringed by the defendant planting his 1998 crop using seed set aside from his 1997 crop which he knew or ... ...
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Essay: Sovereign Immunity: Law in an Unequal World
... ... herbicide used during the Vietnam War, where the case involved ... ...
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Living with Final Warnings: Making the Best of a Bad Job?
This article examines the final warning scheme from a number of perspectives. In the first place it considers the rationale for the abolition of police cauti...... ... , such attempts to ‘nip offending in the bud’ may prove to be counterproductive in the same way that the use of herbicide" promotes the evolution of herbicide resistant weeds. However, herbicides also have other unintended consequences. For instance, aphids\xC2" ... ...
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Food Crime, Regulation and the Biotech Harvest
This article focuses on the trade and regulatory practices of transgenic or genetically modified (GM) food, or what Pringle (2003) refers to as the ‘biotech harvest’. It explores issues of eco-crim...... ... For example, antibiotic resist- ance, allergenic reactions, genetic pollution, herbicide resistant crops, the creation of superweeds and the degradation of ecosystems are all areas of known ‘harms’ caused by the use of transgenic ... ...
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An information method for achieving value‐added processing of bibliographic databases in science and technology
The article presents and discusses a methodological procedure based on the functional density of information, which can be used for value‐added processing of bibliographic databases with scientific...... ... # SUPERABSORBENT?2MICROCAPSUL? ORMICROENCAPSUL?MICROCAPSUL? ORMICROENCAPSUL?3(MICROCAPSUL? ORMICROENCAPSUL?) AND(PESTICIDE# OR HERBICIDE#OR INSECTICIDE# ORFUNGICIDE#)(MICROCAPSUL? ORMICROENCAPSUL?) AND(PESTICIDE? ORHERBICIDE? ORINSECTICIDE? ORFUNGICIDE?)4(MICROCAPSUL? ORMICROENCAPSUL?) ... ...
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