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We are what we eat? Some thoughts on the governance of nutrigenomics and personalised nutrition

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  1. (1949) Trials of war criminals before the nuremberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, vol 2. US Government Printing Office, Washington, pp 181–182, available online at: http://www.nihtraining.com/ohsrsite/guidelines/nuremberg.html.

  2. (1998) Human Genome Organisation (HuGO) Ethics Committee, statement on the principled conduct of genetics research, available online at: http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/hugo/conduct.htm.

  3. Complaints against the EC moratorium by the United States (WT/DS291), Canada (WT/DS292) and Argentina (WT/ DS293); for more information see: http://www.wto.org; for 3rd party commentary on the case see: (2006) Genewatch, The WTO GMO Dispute: The Interim Report of the Dispute Panel, online at: http://www.genewatch.org/WTO/WTO%20-%20Interim%20report%20GeneWatch%20short%20note.pdf.

  4. The author first presented this definition of governance at a workshop organised as part of the PropEur Project in Cardiff, June 2004. For further information on this project see: http://www.propeur.bham.ac.uk/.

  5. Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom (as well as, amongst other thing, to: science, medicine and warfare). Depicted in ‘Minerva’ a marble mosaic by Elihu Vedder, located on the landing of the stairs leading to the Visitors’ Gallery above the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.- she portrayed as a guardian of civilization and promoter of the arts and sciences. In her left hand she is holding a scroll that contains the entire sum of human knowledge, towards the top are listed various items of knowledge, the area to wards the bottom is unclear, and cannot be seen. This is taken to represent the things that man does not know yet. Hence the term “the Minerva condition” to refer to the need to understand the things we do not yet know.

  6. A simple search using the search engine http://www.google.com and searching for the term “personalized nutrition” delivers about 6,130,00; repeating the search with the anglicised spelling “personalised nutrition” delivers about 567,000 sites.

  7. “Growing new areas of research will concentrate on condition-specific probiotics and preventive nutrition. At a personal level, individuals will be able to develop a highly individual nutrition program. This will all imply the development of innovative new products that deliver new benefits to consumers. Nestlé scientists are already leading the next wave of breakthrough research.” http://www.research.nestle.com/innovations_publications/key_innovations/Personalized_nutri.htm.

  8. “For the first time, you will be able to make targeted lifestyle choices based on information that is specific to you, and you alone, and create a unique health program. Nutrigenomics creates an opportunity for you to take control of your health like never before.” http://www.onepersonhealth.com/geneticAnalysis/nutritionalGenetics.jsp.

  9. http://www.genewatch.org/.

  10. This questions was posed to the audience by a member of the local business community at the opening session of University of South Carolina NanoEthics Conference, 2–5 March 2005.

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Cutter, A.M. We are what we eat? Some thoughts on the governance of nutrigenomics and personalised nutrition. Genes Nutr 2, 63–66 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12263-007-0008-7

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