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Acknowledgements

The authors are very grateful for the kind and useful comments on parts of this report from Lars Kluever of the Danish Board of Technology. Special thanks are also due to: Lars Kluever for forwarding useful information about the Danish TA initiatives and for advising the organizers of the UK national consensus conference on plant biotechnology; the organizers of the Dutch Public Debate (NOTA, PWT and SWOKA), especially to Anneke Hamstra (SWOKA) and Lydia Sterrenberg (NOTA) for commenting on the Dutch public debate; and to Beat Kappeler, editorial contributor to Die Weltwoche, and Annette Hafner from Switzerland.

This report is part of a larger research project on "public perception of biotechnology in a variety of European national contexts" funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (project 5002-38046).

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