The separation of science-based risk assessment from policy-based risk management is meant to safeguard scientific autonomy whilst improving evidence-based policy-making. This risk regulation model is used in several policy domains and, especially, those targeting public health like food safety....

The food safety sector has grown extensively during the last two decades. Both in Europe and in the United States, we can observe a surge of regulatory activity on the one hand, and institutional proliferation accompanied by technological expertise for the purpose of monitoring, on the other...