Glossary

Biotechnology: The use of living things to make products.

EU-25: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.

Genetically modified food: A food product containing some quantity of any genetically modified organism as an ingredient.

Nanotechnology: Manipulating matter at unprecedentedly small scales to create new or improved products that can be used in a wide variety of ways.

Therapeutic cloning: Refers to the use of cloning technology in medical research to develop new treatments for diseases; differentiated from human reproductive cloning.

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