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7 Va. J. Soc. Pol'y & L. 257 (1999-2000)
Frankenstein Foods of Flavor Savers: Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology in the United States and Euopean Union

handle is hein.journals/vajsplw7 and id is 265 raw text is: FRANKENSTEIN FOODS OR FLAVOR SAVERS?: REGULATING AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPEAN UNION Jeffrey K. Francer* 'Frankenstein Food' Faces Supermarket Ban' INTRODUCTION Last fall, French protesters dumped mountains of manure and rotting vegetables outside of McDonald's restaurants throughout France. French farmers and others accused the American restau- rant giant of contaminating food with genetically modified crops.2 British McDonald's, also facing protests, have taken genetically modified foods off the menu, as have the in-store brands of major European supermarket chains.3 Perhaps more significantly, sales of corn from the United States to the European Union (EU) have been halted since 1997.4 EU nations barred the import of corn and its by-products-trade that had once averaged more than 2.1 mil- lion tons annually and accounted for almost 5 percent of all U.S. * Associate, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C. J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2000; M.P.P., Harvard University, 1998; A.B., Brown University, 1993. The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Professor Richard Merrill who provided comments on earlier drafts. 1 Headline, Sunday Telegraph (London), Jan. 26, 1997, at 5. 2 See Jeffrey Kluger et. al, Food Fight: The Battle Heats Up Between the U.S. and Europe Over Genetically Engineered Crops, Time, Sept. 13, 1999, at 42. 3 See Scott Kilman, Food Fright: Biotech Scare Sweeps Europe, and Companies Won- der if U.S. Is Next, Wall. St. J., Oct. 7, 1999, at Al. 4 I refer to the European Union throughout this Note to refer to both the political insti- tutions of the European Community and the EU's member states-currently Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. See Treaty Establishing the European Community, Feb. 7, 1992, O.J. (C 224) 1 (1992), consolidated in Oct. 2, 1997, O.J. (C 340) 173 (1997).

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