Food Safety and Risk Governance in Globalized Markets

Sandra Hoffmann and William Harder

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Abstract: Today a new generation of food safety policy is emerging in OECD countries and international public health forums. The United States has actively contributed to the thinking and scientific research underlying this new generation of policy. A consensus has emerged among nations about the basic components of an effective food safety system based on modern science and management practices. In shorthand, the vision is of a farm-to-fork, risk-based, scientifically supported safety control system. This system is built on several decades of experience with risk management in national governments, particularly in U.S. environmental and occupational and consumer safety policy. This paper describes the elements of a risk-based, farm-to-fork food safety system as it is emerging in OECD countries guided by discussions through Codex Alimentarius and traces its roots in the development of risk management policy in the United States.

Keywords: food safety; risk management; policy reform; comparative law (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D18 F13 F19 I18 K23 K33 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-07-20
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