They said that 'the gaps in knowledge are sufficient to justify a precautionary approach.
Prevent harm as the best method of environmental protection and, when knowledge is limited, apply a precautionary approach.
The Stewart report recommended a precautionary approach to the developing technology of mobile phones until more robust scientific evidence became available.
The roundtable agreed that a precautionary approach is needed throughout a business scoping and planning process and not just at the outset.
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Fishing crews are pushing for the limits to be relaxed but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) insists on a precautionary approach.
The agency responded that its sample of measurements was too small to be representative and, therefore, a precautionary approach, as per the law, should be taken.
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He claimed the move to the new system would caused upheaval to millions of "extremely vulnerable people", and called for a "precautionary approach" to introducing change.
Financial services firms Citigroup warned its clients to take a "precautionary approach" to investing in energy projects in Scotland because of uncertainty over the country's constitutional future.
It also recommended a "precautionary approach" for mobile phone users, particularly children, saying there was no evidence that this caused health problems, but no proof that it did not.
"Obviously flood risk is a very serious risk for communities as we've seen last week and over the summer, so it is a very precautionary approach and I think that must be right, " he added.
What is the likelihood that other screenings will be equally flawed if they follow a too-precautionary approach?
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The minister said that under current rules, developments like Glasdir would have been considered with a "highly precautionary approach".
Thus the precautionary principle requires a landscape approach to scientific assessment.
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The expensive lesson from E coli O104 seems to be going unheeded, with Euro-regulators preferring their perverse, populism-driven application of the precautionary principle to a scientific approach to food safety.
We will be working with healthcare professionals - particularly GPs, practice nurses, and accident and emergency staff - to ensure they take the precautionary approach of giving every child with any one of these symptoms a test for Type 1.
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