Contents

List of Contributors viii

1 Introduction 1

KUEI-JUNG NI AND CHING-FU LIN

PART I

Rethinking Risk Governance and Food Safety:

Principles and Approaches 11

2 Phasing Out Certain Antibiotics in Food Animals: The U.S.

and Cost-Benefit Analysis 13

KUEI-JUNG NI

3 The Role of Scientific Evidence in European Food

Assessments 27

ALIE DE BOER

4 Regulating Gene Technology in Food: The American

Approach and Practice 44

NEAL D. FORTIN

PART II

Emerging Technologies and their Ramifications for

Food Safety Governance 57

5 The Impacts of Cross-Border E-Commerce Activities on the Enforcement of SPS Measures: The Chink in

the Armor? 59

KAI-CHIH CHANG

6 Blockchainizing Food Law: Promises and Perils of Incorporating Distributed Ledger Technologies to

Food Safety, Traceability, and Sustainability Governance 74

CHING-FU LIN

7 The Legal Definition of Meat 103

STEPH TAI

PART III

Regulatory Options for Foods Derived From

Genome-Editing Technology and Novel Materials 119

8 Regulation of Gene-Edited Products 121

WEN-SHEN CHU AND PEI-KAN YANG

9 The Regulation of “Novel Food” in China: The

Tendency of De-Regulation 134

JUANJUAN SUN

10 Revisiting Novel Food Regulation 146

YUAN HUNG TSENG

11 Regulatory Responses to the Use of Nanoscale

Substances in Food in ASEAN 162

MUHAMMAD NIZAM AWANG AND SHARIFUDIN MD SHAARANI

PART IV

Health/Functional Food Regulation from a

Comparative Perspective 183

12 Contested Discourses of the Use of Health Foods

in Japan 185

TOMIKO YAMAGUCHI

13 Effective Health Foods Versus Ineffective Drugs:

Governing and Marketing Glucosamine Products in Taiwan 202

YEH-HAN WANG

14 Classification as a Technology of Governance: Food or Drug in South Korea 216

EUNJEONG MA

Index

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