Abstract

Jimmy Carter Op-Ed article scores new import proposals being drafted under auspices of 1992 biodiversity treaty that would place import restrictions on all genetically engineered products in developing and industrialized countries by early as 1999; accuses antibiodiversity team of exceeding its mandate and of spreading misleading information that all genetically modified organisms are threats to public health and environment while ignoring benefits; says if imports of genetically modified products are regulated unnecessarily, real losers will be developing nations