The volume documents the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE (mad cow disease) crisis of the late 1990s. It provides a contemporary and (social science-based) interdisciplinary analysis of the new processes involved in the contested regulation and accountability for food in the EU. The book brings together a theoretical and empirical analysis and a new governance model of the 'post-BSE period' and assesses the changing nature of three sets of actors: private interests: such as the corporate retailers; public regulators such as the EU directorates (DG SANCO),...
The volume documents the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE (mad cow disease) crisis of the late 1990s. It provides a cont...