ABSTRACT
Food Law is a crossroads of interests and requirements that are also relevant in modern legal systems but often conflicting with each other. A key step in the affirmation of food as a human right was made with the introduction of an expressed indication in the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights. In order to reconstruct the consequences of the political choices in the genetically modified organisms area, it is necessary to distinguish between the profile of the deliberate release into the environment and the profile of the marketing: this distinction is instrumental to understanding the differences and the interferences among both the strategies of the implementation of the right to food and the instruments of the food policy of the States. In European Food Law there is a relevant principle which the States have to consider when establishing regulations within food policies: this is the principle of Prevention.
