The European food safety regulatory framework provides EU consumers with one of the safest food systems in the world. The mission of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) - an integral part of that system - is to contribute to protecting human life and health, taking account of animal health...

In dem Projekt wurden alle Meilensteine erreicht. Im ersten Arbeitspaket wurde die Rechtsanwaltskanzlei WILDE BEUGER SOLMECKE mit dem Rechtsgutachten beauftragt und erarbeitete dieses im Jahr 2020. Ein Entwurf des Rechtsgutachtens wurde einem Fachpublikum im Rahmen eines Online...

The results of the Eurobarometer survey on 'Food safety in the EU' reveal the interest of Europeans in food safety, their general awareness of food safety topics, and the impact of food safety concerns on consumer behaviour. Food safety is reported to be one of the main factors driving...

The present report is realized by the students of the Human Rights and Sustainable Development Legal Clinic at the University of Antwerp, Faculty of Law. The aim of the report is to provide a right-to-food assessment of the main EU food-related policies and provide a critical assessment of the...

We examine three theories of Progressive Era regulation: public interest, industry capture, and information manipulation by the federal bureaucracy and muckraking press. Based on analysis of qualitative legislative histories and econometric evidence, we argue that the adoption of the 1906 Pure...

The European Union's food safety policy aims to protect consumers, while guaranteeing the smooth operation of the single market. It has agreed standards to ensure food hygiene, animal health and welfare, and plant health and to control contamination from external substances. In 2002, the...

Opponents of the voluntary labeling scheme for genetically modified (GM) food products often argue that consumers have the right to know and therefore advocate mandatory labeling. In this paper we argue against this line of reasoning. Using experimental auctions conducted with a sample of the...

This study uses county-level variation in implementation of calorie labeling laws in the US to identify the effects of such laws on body mass. Using the 2003 to 2012 waves of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we find a statistically insignificant average treatment effect for women...

This study uses county-level variation in implementation of calorie labeling laws in the US to identify the effects of such laws on body mass. Using the 2003 to 2012 waves of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we find a statistically insignificant average treatment effect for women...

In recent months, the international headlines have turned their attention to the ongoing negotiations between European Union and United States within the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Actually, meetings between representatives of both the superpowers began more than two...

Mit der globalen Übergewichtskrise steigt weltweit auch die Prävalenz von Herzkreislauferkrankungen, Diabetes mellitus Typ 2 und anderen ernährungsmitbedingten chronischen Erkrankungen. Um dieser Entwicklung entgegenzuwirken, bieten sich für eine nachhaltige Verbesserung des...

“The WTO Analytical Index” is an article-by-article guide to the interpretation and application of the WTO agreements by WTO bodies. It covers the jurisprudence of the WTO Appellate Body, panels and arbitrators as well as related decisions and other significant actions taken by other...

A central goal of the federal legal system for food is to ensure the integrity of representations made by sellers of food about their products. To achieve transparency, the law of food deploys three different kinds of regulatory strategies: prohibitions against fraud, compelled disclosures, and...

Economists have devoted relatively little attention to analyzing how government officials actually enforce regulation. This is a significant omission since the efficacy of regulatory enforcement and the effects of regulation on economic outcomes may depend on how regulators regulate. This paper...

Food-borne illness remains a major public health challenge in the United States, causing an estimated 48 million illness episodes and 3000 deaths annually. The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), enacted in 2011, gives the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) new tools to regulate food...

Food is one of the most regulated social and economic sectors. At the global level several organisations such as the UN, FAO, WHO, the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the WTO play a role in food governance through formulating and enforcing rules regarding production, manufacturing, trade and...

This paper reflects on the role of responsibility placed on food business operators by Regulation (EC) 178/2002 in the emergence and shaping of private food safety regulation. In particular imposed self-regulation in food hygiene is explored along with the regulation of businesses upstream from...

Hersteller und Händler wollen Ihre Umsätze beim Verkauf von Lebensmitteln mit Hinweisen wie „Mit wertvollen Vitaminen“ steigern. Doch was ist erlaubt? Welche Werbeaussagen führen Verbraucher in die Irre?

Large food producers in some of the most-powerful trading nations attain so much influence through international trade and outsourcing, that they become leaders in corporate governance and the World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only international body capable of regulating the international...

Since 1998, the World Health Organisation has recognised obesity as a problem of epidemic proportions. As none of the EU Member States is spared, the European Commission has recently published a Green Paper aimed at gathering evidence on how it could develop an obesity prevention strategy at...

This collection resulted from an international workshop funded and organised by Biosecurity Australia, the agency of government responsible for analysing Australia's quarantine import risks and for negotiating multilateral SPS rules and less restrictive access to overseas markets for Australian...

After several food scandals in the past decades, regulatory regimes in food safety have been reformed on the level of the European Union and in most EU member states. In most countries, independent agencies have been created and mainly perform tasks in risk assessment. In our contribution, we...

Global food markets and standards -- The importance of food standards in international trade law -- Food standard-setting organisations -- Food quality standards as technical barriers to trade -- Food labeling standards and trademark law -- Food safety standards as sanitary and phytosanitary...

"Food waste, hunger, inhumane livestock conditions, disappearing fish stocks--these are exactly the kind of issues we expect food regulations to combat. Yet, today in the United States, laws exist at all levels of government that actually make these problems worse. Baylen Linnekin argues that,...

Economists have devoted relatively little attention to analyzing how government officials actually enforce regulation. This is a significant omission, since the efficacy of regulatory enforcement and the effects of regulation on economic outcomes may depend on how regulators regulate. This...

According to World Trade Organization rules, countries may adopt regulations under the Agreements on Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) and Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT). We analyze the structure of these measures in agricultural trade. The inventory approach suggests that European countries...

Many countries have adopted labeling policies for genetically modified (GM) food, and the regulations vary considerably across countries.We evaluate the importance of political economic factors implicit in the choice of GM food labeling regulations. Using an analytical model, we show that...