Abstract
The concept of an ethics committee has been one of the instruments that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century in medical ethics. There are a wide range of committees, and some play roles in policy formation, some in development of guidelines, and others in resolution of specific ethical cases. They have been useful in medicine, and can be useful in the future in resolution of ethical issues in food and agriculture. The most well known ethics committee in the United Nations system is the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee (IBC) that was created in 1993. It was an external ethics committee, functioning as a forum for debate and reflection, and for the elaboration of UNESCO’s normative actions. Internal and external ethics committees can work as think tanks on ethical issues in an open and transparent style. One of the principles of ethics is transparency, and true public reflection should be open to observers, and to outside input as well.
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