Food Safety and Technology Governance

ISBN-13: 9781032222806 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Ching-Fu Lin; Kuei-Jung Ni

Opis

This book explores existing and emerging issues of food law and policy in the context of technology governance to offer an overarching framework for the interaction between food regulation and technology.

Spis treści

1. Introduction. PART I: RETHINKING RISK GOVERNANCE AND FOOD SAFETY: PRINCIPLES AND APPROACHES. 2. Phasing out Certain Antibiotics in Food Animals: the U.S. Approach in light of Precaution and Cost-benefit Analysis. 3. The Role of Scientific Evidence in European Food Assessments. 4. Regulating Gene-technology in Food: American Approach and Practice. PART II: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR RAMIFICATIONS FOR FOOD SAFETY GOVERNANCE. 5. The Impacts of Cross-border E-Commerce Activities on the Enforcement of SPS Measures: The Chink in the Armor?. 6. Blockchainizing Food Law: Promises and Perils of Incorporating Distributed Ledger Technologies to Food Safety, Traceability, and Sustainability Governance. 7. The Legal Definition of Meat. PART III: REGULATORY OPTIONS FOR FOODS DERIVED FROM GENOME-EDITING TECHNOLOGY AND NOVEL MATERIALS. 8. Regulation of Gene-edited Products. 9. The Regulation of Novel Food in China: The Tendency of Deregulation. 10. Revisiting Novel Food Regulation. 11. Regulatory Responses to the use of Nano-scale Substance in Food in ASEAN. PART IV: HEALTH/FUNCTIONAL FOODS REGULATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: 12. Contested discourses of the use of health foods in Japan. 13. Effective Health Foods Versus Ineffective Drugs: Governing and Marketing Glucosamine Products in Taiwan. 14. Classification as a technology of governance: food or drug in South Korea.