The Food Warden: An Exploration of Issues in Distributing Responsibilities for Safe-by-Design Synthetic Biology Applications.
The Safe-by-Design approach in synthetic biology holds the promise of designing the building blocks of life in an organism guided by the value of safety. This paves a new way for using biotechnologies safely. However, the Safe-by-Design approach moves the bulk of the responsibility for safety to the...
| Published in: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 1673 - 1697 |
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Dec2018
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=134037824&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 134037824 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 13533452 GNI jtl: Science & Engineering Ethics issn: 13533452 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2018 vid: 24 iid: 6 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 134037824 10.1007/s11948-017-9969-0 ppf: 1673 ppct: 24 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 700KB tig: atl: The Food Warden: An Exploration of Issues in Distributing Responsibilities for Safe-by-Design Synthetic Biology Applications. aug: au: Robaey, Zoë Spruit, Shannon L. van de Poel, Ibo affil: Department of Biotechnology and Society, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ, Delft, The Netherlands Department of Multi-Actor Systems, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX, Delft, The Netherlands Department of Values, Technology and Innovation, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX, Delft, The Netherlands su: Food safety Meat Food & culture Biotechnology Stakeholders sug: subj: Food safety Meat Food & culture Biotechnology Stakeholders keyword: Group decision room Moral responsibility Safe-by-Design Synthetic biology Uncertainty ab: The Safe-by-Design approach in synthetic biology holds the promise of designing the building blocks of life in an organism guided by the value of safety. This paves a new way for using biotechnologies safely. However, the Safe-by-Design approach moves the bulk of the responsibility for safety to the actors in the research and development phase. Also, it assumes that safety can be defined and understood by all stakeholders in the same way. These assumptions are problematic and might actually undermine safety. This research explores these assumptions through the use of a Group Decision Room. In this set up, anonymous and non-anonymous deliberation methods are used for different stakeholders to exchange views. During the session, a potential synthetic biology application is used as a case for investigation: the Food Warden, a biosensor contained in meat packaging for indicating the freshness of meat. Participants discuss what potential issues might arise, how responsibilities should be distributed in a forward-looking way, who is to blame if something would go wrong. They are also asked what safety and responsibility mean at different phases, and for different stakeholders. The results of the session are not generalizable, but provide valuable insights. Issues of safety cannot all be taken care of in the R&D phase. Also, when things go wrong, there are proximal and distal causes to consider. In addition, capacities of actors play an important role in defining their responsibilities. Last but not least, this research provides a new perspective on the role of instruction manuals in achieving safety. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Science & Engineering Ethics is a copyright of Springer, 2018. All Rights Reserved. item: Science & Engineering Ethics holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2018 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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