Conclusions

Abstract

The concluding chapter to this book provides a summary of the discussions in the text thus far, which were centred around trying to reveal the broader constitutional implications of EU regulation of agricultural biotechnology as a paradigmatic example of the challenges and wicked problems that public regulators encounter when regulating technological risks in globalized risk societies. The concluding chapter also looks at lessons learned from the controversy surrounding genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and GMO failures. It finishes with the view that there is a need for a societal debate about modern agri-food production.