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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 signifi cant 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.
List of contents
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.
About the author
Kuei-Jung Ni is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transnational Trade Laws at School of Law, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan
Ching-Fu Lin is Professor of Law at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan
Summary
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.
