Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• hossain sobhani ¹
• Mohammad Ali Mahdavi Sabet ²

¹ Ph.D. student of criminal law and criminology, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran (corresponding author) hemmmmat.ebrahim@gmail.com

² Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

One of the duties of governments is to ensure food security as a guarantee of national security. It is assumed that food security is a national security policy and the degree of the latter depends on the quality of the former. Today, fighting starvation is not the only concern and the right for food comprises its healthiness as well. This has created a human right challenge faced by modern technologies that provide biologically manipulated products called transgenetic. The truth is that these new products are not normal since they involve technological and genetic transformations. In other words, they include some ingredients and substances not previously existing in human diet. The present study is about especially the harmful side of this type of product and by raising the jurisprudential foundations of that it offers its guidelines for governments to interfere and prohibit their production.

Keywords

• Transgenetic Products
• Penal Obligation
• Punishment (ta’zir)
• Food Security