LIABILITY ISSUES OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS

As is now customary, the Consumer Protection Council, since its ‘inauguration, yearly keeps faith with the World Consumer Rights Day celebrated every 15\" day of March. The tradition has been to select a chosen theme relevant to consumers and subject it to debate, often with a sensitization of consumer rights regarding that theme as the aim. This-year’s theme is, “Food Security: Is Genetically Modified Foods the Answer?” The notion of food security at once conjures up inadequacy of food for mankind, which thus engenders world hunger. World hunger has been variously and indeed is continually addressed at both domestic and international fora in so much so that the discourse on the subject has been elevated to one of a rights issue with commentators arguing that the right to food is a universal human night that must sustained ed-and