1st Edition
Food Systems Law An Introduction for Non-Lawyers
Preface
Disclaimer
1. Introduction to Food Law
2. The US Legal System
3. Federal Regulation of Food Systems
4. The Farm Bill
5. Food Safety
6. State and Local Regulation of Food
7. Food Labels
8. Organic Certification
9. International Trade
10. Labor In the Food System
11. Environmental Law
12. Food Security and Food Access
13. Food Loss and Food Waste
14. Health and the Law
15. Contracts
16. Insurance and Liability
Index
Biography
Marne Coit, MSEL, JD, LLM, is on the faculty of the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and has an Extension appointment at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA. Her teaching and research focuses on food, agricultural and hemp law.
Theodore A. Feitshans is a Professor of Agribusiness at the University of Mount Olive and an Extension Professor Emeritus in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA. He is a past President of the American Agricultural Law Association, and author of Agricultural and Agribusiness Law: An introduction for non-lawyers (Routledge, 2019).
"The field of food law continues to be a developing area of the law that grows in importance. This textbook is perfect to help undergraduates understand the impacts the law plays in what we eat and how we eat it. The information in the book is covered in an easy-to-understand fashion. Theodore Feitshans and Marne Coit are two of the preeminent professors involved in the field of food law." — Paul Goeringer, Senior Faculty Specialist and Extension Legal Specialist, Department Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Maryland, USA
