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8 McGill J.L. & Health 1 (2014-2015)

handle is hein.journals/mcghealp8 and id is 1 raw text is: McGILL JOURNAL OF LAW AND HEALTH - REVUE DE DROIT ET SANTE DE McGILL GMO LABELLING AND THE CONSUMER'S RIGHT TO KNow: A COMPARATIVE REVIEW OF THE LEGAL BASES FOR THE CONSUMER'S RIGHT TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD LABELLING Li Du* Recent sensationalist lobbying campaigns have frequently used the protection of the consumer's right to know as a rationale for demanding a mandatory labelling sys- tem for genetically modified organisms (GMOs). This article aims to discuss how Health Canada, the Canadian agency re- sponsible for food labelling, is likely to re- act to the purportedly overwhelming argu- ment of the consumer's right to know and the allegedly strong trend towards manda- tory GMO labelling requirements. It begins with a comparative analysis of recent legal practices regarding the legal basis of the consumer's right to know for GMO label- ling in the US, the European Union, and De rdcentes et sensationnalistes campagnes de lobbying ont invoqud le << droit du consommateur de savoir >> comme une rai- son d'insister sur l'dtablissement d'un sys- t&me d'dtiquetage obligatoire pour les orga- nismes gdndtiquement modifids (OGM). Cet article vise a discuter comment Santd Canada, l'agence canadienne responsable de l'dtiquetage alimentaire, risque de rdagir au prdtendu puissant argument du droit du consommateur de savoir ainsi qu'a la prd- sumde forte tendance vers des exigences d'dtiquetage des OGM. L'auteur propose une analyse comparative des r6centes pra- tiques juridiques en ce qui concerne la base ldgale de l'dtiquetage des OGM par raison Li Du, LLB, MBB S (Wuhan), PhD (Alberta); Research Associate at the Health Law Institute, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB; PhD Candidate, School of Law, Wuhan University, Hubei, China. I would like to gratefully acknowledge Timothy Caulfield and Linda Reif for assistance and insight in the research and writing of this article. I would also like to thank Christen Rachul, School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton Uni- versity, Ottawa, for language editing at the early stages of this article. I am very grateful to the editors of McGill Journal of Law and Health for their great assistance throughout the entire publication process. © Li Du 2014 Citation: Li Du, GMO Labelling and the Consumer's Right to Know: A Compa- rative Review of the Legal Bases for the Consumer's Right to Genetically Modi- fied Food Labelling (2014) 8:1 McGill JL & Health 1. Rfdrence : Li Du, < GMO Labelling and the Consumer's Right to Know: A Comparative Review of the Legal Bases for the Consumer's Right to Genetically Modified Food Labelling (2014) 8 : 1 RD & sante McGill 1.

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