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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh
That makes them useless. There's no point in ever developing a new model of a bioroid if you need to wait 100+ years before starting to mass-produce it. Ditto for foods: you alibananas will be out of fashion long before they're vetted if your vetting process is so slow and inefficient.
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There seems to be a pretty common attitude that (non-traditional) biotechnology needs to be scrutinized on a level comparable to what we do to medicines, regardless of it's function.
In fiction it's more likely to get, at best, the kind of safety assessment that consumer goods in general do.