Ni Kuei-Jung, Lin Ching-Fu (eds.). Food Safety and Technology Governance. Routledge,2022. — 252 p.. 2022
Recent advances in agri-food technology have brought increasing complexity and emerging challenges to food safety regulation and governance, with many countries greatly divided in their regulatory approaches. As more advanced CRISPR-based gene-editing technologies and novel foods such as cloned animal products, non-traditional plants, nanofood, and plant-based meat are rapidly being developed, debates arise as to whether the existing models of governance require revision to ensure consumer safety. Of equal importance is the extensive use of pesticides, additives, and animal drugs, which raise concerns over the methods and approaches of government approval and phasing out of potentially risk-causing chemicals. Heightened public criticism of food safety and technology poses a significant challenge to governments around the world, which struggle to strike a proper balance between technocracy- and democracy-oriented risk governance models. Drawing on expertise from the United States, European Union, Japan, China, Korea, Association of South East Asian Nations, Malaysia, and Taiwan, 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. It will be essential reading for academics, students, and practitioners with an interest in food law and policy, agricultural law and policy, and food safety and nutrition studies.
Part I Rethinking Risk Governance and Food Safety
Principles and Approache
Phasing Out Certain Antibiotics in Food Animals
The U.S. Approach in Light of Precautions and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Kuei-Jung Ni*
The Role of Scientific Evidence in European Food Assessments
Alie de Boer
Regulating Gene Technology in Food
The American Approach and Practice
Neal D. Fortin
Part II Emerging Technologies and their Ramifications for Food Safety Governanc
The Impacts of Cross-Border E-Commerce Activities on the Enforcement of SPS Measures
The Chink in the Armor?
Kai-Chih Chang*
Blockchainizing Food Law
Promises and Perils of Incorporating Distributed Ledger Technologies to Food Safety, Traceability, and Sustainability Governance
Ching-Fu Lin*
The Legal Definition of Meat
Steph Tai
Part III Regulatory Options for Foods Derived From Genome-Editing Technology and Novel Material
Regulation of Gene-Edited Products
Wen-Shen Chu and Pei-kan Yang
The Regulation of “Novel Food” in China
The Tendency of De-Regulation
Juanjuan Sun*
Revisiting Novel Food Regulation
Yuan Hung Tseng
Regulatory Responses to the Use of Nanoscale Substances in Food in ASEAN
Muhammad Nizam Awang and Sharifudin Md Shaarani
Part IV Health/Functional Food Regulation from a Comparative Perspectiv
Contested Discourses of the Use of Health Foods in Japan
Tomiko Yamaguchi
Effective Health Foods Versus Ineffective Drugs Governing and Marketing
Glucosamine Products in Taiwan
Yeh-Han Wang
Classification as a Technology of Governance
Food or Drug in South Korea
Eunjeong Ma
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