Managing Risks Related to Modern Biotechnologies and their Foods

Le Groupe de recherche en santé et droit de McGill (GRSD), en collaboration avec l’École d’environnement de McGill, organise un séminaire avec Ludivine Petetin, professeure adjointe à la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Hull, au Royaume-Uni.

Le séminaire est gratuit et un léger diner sera servi, mais les INSCRIPTIONS SONT OBLIGATOIRES car les places sont limitées. Prière de réserver votre place en écrivant à rghl.law [at] mcgill.ca. 

Résumé

"The development of modern biotechnologies (including genetic modification of plants and animals, and animal cloning) and their resulting foods has been controversial. They allegedly are underpinned by scientific uncertainty. To regulate such technologies and to ensure information and safety, the European Union has adopted a precautionary approach. More specifically, the EU regulatory frameworks rely on premarket authorization and mandatory labelling. An analysis of the policy and regulatory provisions addressing modern biotechnologies and their derived products in the EU shows that gaps in the law and asymmetric relationships between competing European and national policies pose great risks to the EU food system and the environment."

La conférencière

Dr. Ludivine Petetin is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the policy, law and regulation of food, agriculture and environmental protection. In particular, she is interested in food security, agri-technology, sustainable agriculture, and investigates public participation and governance issues. She is a co-founder of the recently established @FEED (Agriculture, Technology, Food, Environment, Energy and Democracy) Research Centre at the University of Hull. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Visiting Lecturer at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Italy). Dr. Petetin holds postgraduate degrees from Paris II Panthéon-Assas in France, the University of Glasgow and the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. From September 2015, she serves as the British Deputy National Delegate of the European Council for Agricultural Law (CEDR).

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