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21 Minn. J. Int'l L. 145 (2012)
AquAdvantage is Not Real Advantage: European Biotechnology Regulations and the United States' September 2012 FDA Review of Genetically Modified Salmon

handle is hein.journals/mjgt21 and id is 147 raw text is: Note AquAdvantage is Not Real Advantage: European Biotechnology Regulations and the United States' September 2010 FDA Review of Genetically Modified Salmon Katherine Wilinska* I. INTRODUCTION Recent years have brought an increase in public concern over genetically modified (GM) organisms and their possible impact on the health and safety of consumers and the environment. GM food supporters revere the enhanced quality and taste, increased yield, lower production costs, heightened pest and drought resistance, and shorter production times of transgenic foods. However, opponents fear the yet unknown environmental, social, health, and ethical risks that these foods bring with them.' The divided views are, to different extents, * Katherine Wilinska holds an MA in English from A. Mickiewicz University in Poland and is expected to graduate with a JD from the University of Minnesota Law School in December 2011. She has spent her last semester of law school studying European Union law at the Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. In the past she has worked as a manager for an international business and as a Polish interpreter. Her areas of research include corporate law, antitrust law, biotechnology regulation, and international business and trade law with a special focus on cross-comparison of United States and European Union law. 1. See MARK A. POLLACK & GREGORY C. SHAFFER, WHEN COOPERATION FAILS: THE INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLITICS OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS 34-38 (2009) (listing such positives to GM organisms' development as the prevention of hunger in developing countries, the clean-up of toxic spills, and the elimination of toxic chemicals from crop production; whereas some negatives include the impairment of biodiversity, irreversible changes to the natural food chain, the triggering of allergenic reactions, and even a monopoly of modified products concentrated in a few corporate hands); Simonetta Zarilli, International Trade in GMOs and GM Products: National and Multilateral Legal Frameworks, at 1-2, UNCTAD/ITCD/TAB/30, U.N. Sales No. E.04.II.D.41 (2005) (contrasting the benefits of GM foods in resolving issues such as the nutritional needs of the world's growing population and the efficient use of agrarian space with possible negative impacts on human 145

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