1st Edition

Food Safety and Technology Governance

Edited By Kuei-Jung Ni, Ching-Fu Lin Copyright 2023
252 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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,... Read more
  1. Kuei-Jung Ni And Ching-Fu Lin, Introduction

    Part I. Rethinking Risk Governance and Food Safety:
    Principles and Approaches

  2. Kuei-Jung Ni, Phasing out Certain Antibiotics in Food Animals: the U.S. Approach in light of Precaution and Cost-benefit Analysis

  3. Alie de Boer, The Role of Scientific Evidence in European Food Assessments

  4. Neal D. Fortin, Regulating Gene-technology in Food: American Approach and Practice

    Part II. Emerging Technologies and their Ramifications for
    Food Safety Governance

  5. Kai-Chih Chang, The Impacts of Cross-border E-Commerce Activities on the Enforcement of SPS Measures: The Chink in the Armor?

  6. Ching-Fu Lin, Blockchainizing Food Law: Promises and Perils of Incorporating Distributed Ledger Technologies to Food Safety, Traceability, and Sustainability Governance

  7. Steph Tai, The Legal Definition of Meat

    Part III. Regulatory Options for Foods Derived from Genome-Editing Technology and Novel Materials

  8. Wen-Shen Chu and Pei-kan Yang, Regulation of Gene-edited Products

  9. Juanjuan Sun, The Regulation of Novel Food in China: The Tendency of Deregulation

  10. Yuan Hung Tseng, Revisiting Novel Food Regulation

  11. Muhammad Nizam Awang and Sharifudin Md Shaarani, Regulatory Responses to the use of Nano-scale Substance in Food in ASEAN

    Part IV. Health/Functional Foods Regulation in
    Comparative Perspective

  12. Tomiko Yamaguchi, Contested discourses of the use of health foods in Japan

  13. Yeh-Han Wang, Effective Health Foods Versus Ineffective Drugs: Governing and Marketing Glucosamine Products in Taiwan

Eunjeong Ma, Classification as a technology of governance: food or drug in South Korea

Biography

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