They said that 'the gaps in knowledge are sufficient to justify a precautionary approach.
What is the likelihood that other screenings will be equally flawed if they follow a too-precautionary approach?
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Prevent harm as the best method of environmental protection and, when knowledge is limited, apply a precautionary approach.
The minister said that under current rules, developments like Glasdir would have been considered with a "highly 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.
So, at present, it looks as though women who want to follow the French precautionary approach will have to pay for the surgery themselves.
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.
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.
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.
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