Introduction

Articles

Consumers and Biotechnology: A Synopsis of Survey and Focus Group Research

Heather Sheehy

Marc Legault

Derek Ireland

Consumers' Decision-Making and Risk Perceptions Regarding Foods Produced with Biotechnology*

Jennifer B. Wohl

The Market for Credible Information in Biotechnology*

Edna F. Einsiedel

An Overview of Public Consultation Mechanisms Developed to Address the Ethical and Social Issues Raised by Biotechnology*

Therese Leroux

Marie Hirtle

Louis-Nicolas Fortin

The Commercialization of Human Genetics: A Discussion of Issues Relevant to the Canadian Consumer*

Timothy Caulfield

International Comparisons of Biotechnology Policies*

Zhiqi Chen

Alison Mcdermott

An Information-Based Approach to Labeling Biotechnology Consumer Products*

Gillian K. Hadfield

David Thomson

Economic Perspectives on the Dissemination of Science-Based Information to Consumers

Alan D. Mathios

Chapters indicated with an asterisk are reprinted from the Journal of Consumer Policy volume 21, No. 4 (1998).

Using Advertising to Generate Information and Signals for Product Quality: Lessons for Biotechnology Markets in Canada from Pharmaceutical Markets in the United States

Andrew N. Kleit

Biotechnology and the Media

Stephen Strauss

The Federal Biotechnology Regulatory System: A Commentary on an Institutional Work in Progress

G. Bruce Doern

Heather Sheehy

The Industrial Economics of Biotechnology

Christopher Green

Biotechnological Innovation and Industrial Performance

Claude Crampes

Abraham Hollander

Consumer Controversy and the Funding of Biotechnology Research

Jeffrey G. Macintosh

Douglas J. Cumming

Appendices

Integration Document -- Biotechnology, the Consumer, and the Canadian Marketplace

Marc Legault

Alison Mcdermott

Bartha M. Knoppers

Derek Ireland

Rapporteur's Remarks -- Symposium on Biotechnology and the Consumer