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22 Loy. L.A. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 453 (1999-2000)
GMO: Genetically Modified Organism or Gigantic Monetary Obligation - The Liability Schemes for GMO Damage in the United States and the European Union

handle is hein.journals/loyint22 and id is 463 raw text is: GMO: Genetically Modified Organism or Gigantic Monetary Obligation? The Liability Schemes for GMO Damage in the United States and the European Union A. BRYAN ENDRES* As with many modern technological developments, the enormous benefits of biotechnology will not come without corresponding social and environmental risks. Although scientists and policymakers have dismissed earlier predictions of pandemics resulting from the release of genetically engineered microorganisms, few maintain that they can predict with certainty the ecological consequences of inserting a gene from one species into another species and releasing the result of that miscegenation into the environment. Past unpleasant experiences with nuclear power, pesticides, and the importation of exotic plant species caution against launching headlong into the development and marketing of a new biotechnology without examining its potential for environmental harm. It may be, as many microbiologists predict, that very few modern biotechnologies pose any risk to humans or the environment; but, almost certainly', there will be one with the potential to cause great damage. * B.S., United States Military Academy, West Point, New York (1992); M.A., Bowie State University, European Division, Heidelberg, Germany (1995); J.D., European Union Fellow, University of Illinois, Champaign (2000); law clerk to Chief Judge Haldane Robert Mayer, United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit (2000-present). The author wishes to thank the European Union Center at the University of Illinois and the European Union for research funding. 1. Thomas 0. McGarity, International Regulation of Deliberate Release Biotechnologies, 26 TEX. INT'L L.J. 423, 425 (1991).

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