ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on these approaches with the requisite dexterity: The precautionary approach, the moratoria approach and the noninterventionists or proactionary approach. The precautionary approach emanates from the precautionary principle typically used in international policy and regulatory studies. Generally, a moratorium is used in resolving conflicts, sometimes to enable feuding or parties pause to harsh out differences in order to agree on term or permanent solutions in the interest of peace or other fiduciary, economic, political, and policy reasons. A time-restraint moratorium and a conscious effort at progressive discussions of the genetic bioengineering will be in the interest of scientific advancements as well as enhancing better health care. The scientists, lawyers as well as some policy makers converged and called for self-regulation of recombinant biotechnology given some of the potential biosafety concerns. On January 29, 2000, The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was promulgated to regulate the then burgeoning international rDNA or bioengineering industry as well as strengthening existing norms.
