| 英文摘要 |
With rapid advancement in modern biotechnology, the agro-food industry hasbeen engaged in producing foods derived from genome-editing technology to meetthe growing demand for food security and nutrition worldwide. Unlike thosetraditionally recognized as safe, these “novel foods” bring regulatory challenges tothe insurance of food safety and legal issues over consistency with existingframework of food safety governance. Despite the thriving cultivation ofgenome-edited crops worldwide, Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture (COA) adopted thepolicy that neither genetic modified nor edited crops are allowed to plant in thefield. Therefore, the genome-edited food products in Taiwan, if any, will come mostlikely from abroad through importation, and the regulatory pressure will fallstressfully on Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) rather than the COA.Against such background, this paper will examine possible legal challenges forimporting genome-edited food products under current food laws, and explore policyoptions and considerations for regulation of genome-edited foods in Taiwan. Thispaper argues that Taiwan FDA could adopt a more cautious strategy towardimported genome-edited foods, in contrast to genome-edited crops as currentlypermitted for plantation in some countries. Moreover, a categorical case-by-caseregulatory approach mixed with product-and-process based considerations can beadopted in tandem with early consultation in order to achieve a more balanced outcome in accommodating various policy objectives and multiple interests involvedin the field of newly advanced genome-editing technology |
