- Collection:
- Dean Rusk International Law Center Collections
- Title:
- Labelling Genetically Modified Products Under International Law
- Creator:
- Harris, Mary Caroline
- Date of Original:
- 1998-01-01
- Subject:
- University of Georgia. School of Law
Law--Study and teaching
International law - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- dissertations
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- GMO -- genetically modified organisms -- GATT -- WTO -- Law -- Life Sciences
This paper focuses on the debate on the health, policy and legal regimes that require the special labeling of food, drugs and other products that contain genetically-modified-organisms. The paper examines national and international regulatory schemes on genetically-modified-organisms and the roles of the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and World Trade Organization (WTO) conventions for non-restrictive global trade. This paper analyzes the scope, aims and objectives of the proposed international Biosafety Protocol in line with the overarching goals of GATT/WTO. The paper concludes that the food industry and individual producers should have the liberty to decide whether to label the genetically-modified products because having regulations based on consumer anxiety without any scientific evidence of harm violates the GATT objectives. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/stu_llm/216
- Holding Institution:
- Alexander Campbell King Law Library
- Rights:
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