Prior Informed Consent

Prior Informed Consent is a well-defined term in lawand medicine. It means that before one is subjected to a risk, especially a risk of bodily harm, one is entitled to be fully informed well in advance, so as to make an informed decision about whether to undergo the treatment or eat some food or medicine that has undergone that treatment. A closely related issue is that of mandatory labellingof irradiated foodor genetically modified organisms, without which, the consumersimply cannot tell that these risks apply. Biosafetyadvocates prefer the Precautionary Principlebut have accepted PIC as the basis of the Montreal Biosafety Protocolagreed in 2000.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
It uses material from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior+Informed+Consent Wikipedia article Prior Informed Consent.