Food Safety Governance Integrating Science, Precaution and Public Involvement /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Renn, Ortwin (Editor), Dreyer, Marion (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Risk, Governance and Society ; 15
• Subjects: Food > Biotechnology.; Public international law.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Economic policy.; Sociology.; Economics.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Food Science.; Public International Law.; Sociology, general.

 This book offers a detailed analysis and a set of carefully measured suggestions towards achieving greater integration of science, precaution, and public involvement in current arrangements for European food safety governance. The devised governance framework provides a distinctive system of methodologies, participatory processes, and institutional configurations that demonstrates practical advice of how complex and conflicting food safety demands might be reconciled. At the core of the suggestions for procedural reform is a design with four governance stages (framing, assessment, evaluation, management, with participation and communication as cross-cutting activities), and an organisation into four assessment and management tracks distinguishing between risk-, precaution-, concern- and prevention-based approaches. In addition, the book suggests an innovative food safety interface structure designed to improve the politics-science-society coordination throughout the governance process. 

 A General Framework for the Precautionary and Inclusive Governance of Food Safety -- The Need for Change -- Overview of the General Framework -- The Process of Framing -- The Process of Assessment -- The Processes Evaluation and Management -- Legal and Institutional Aspects of the General Framework -- A Structured Approach to Participation -- Communication About Food Safety -- Implementation of the General Framework: Genetically Modified (Cry1Ab) Maize Case Study1 -- Summary: Key Features of the General Framework -- Input and Commentaries by Key Actors in Food Safety Governance -- Input of Key Actors in the Development of the General Framework -- Commentaries on the Revised General Framework1.