Trade/Scientific Risk NTBs & Non-State Aspects (GMOs Plus)

1/3 First read the Beef Hormone case, then do the readings and work individually the separate case study on Dolly the Sheep and GMOs, which follows up on the Cartegena Biosafety Protocol.

2/3 Again individually, how could you apply the Beef Hormones decision to GMOs? Is it consistent with the view of GMOs contained in the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol? What accounts for the different perspectives? How does the Beef Hormones decision approach the question of risk and the ability of countries to set domestic food safety (phylosanitary) standards that would tend to exclude GMOs or other products essentially on a health claim? Can governments set health standards to exclude the import of rotten beef? If so, why not allow the exclusion non-organic beef? How should the Cartagena Protocol as multilateral environmental agreement be reconciled with GATT/WTO obligations?

3/3 Everyone should read and think about it it, but we shall appoint a group of students to work on and present in class the Good Cardio Palm Oil Problem.

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