Overview
- Brings together lawyers and economists from different jurisdictions in the USA and Europe
- Examines the growing and partly contradictory regulatory food safety framework in the EU
- Includes an analysis of general regulatory strategies as well as a hands-on assessment of the main legal acts ?
Part of the book series: Economic Analysis of Law in European Legal Scholarship (EALELS, volume 6)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- EU Food Safety Regulation Economic Analysis
- Economic Analysis of Law
- Economics of Enforcement
- Economics of Food Safety
- Food Information Regulation
- General Food Law
- Harmonization of Food Law in the EU
- Proportionality Principle in EU Food Law
- Regulating Food Safety Law in the EU
- Regulatory Challenges of Food Safety
- Regulatory Tools for Food Safety
- Special Foods
About this book
This book analyses EU food law from a regulatory, economic and managerial perspective. It presents an economic assessment of strategies of food safety regulation, and discusses the different regulatory regimes in EU food law. It examines the challenges of food safety in the internal market as well as the regulatory tools that are available. The book’s generic theorising and measurement of regulatory effects is supplemented by detailed analysis of key topics in food markets, such as health claims, enforcement strategies, and induced risk management at the level of the organizations producing food. The regulatory effects discussed in the book range from classical regulatory analysis covering e.g. effects of ex-ante versus ex-post regulation and content-related versus information-related regulation to new regulatory options such as behavioral regulation. The book takes as its premise the idea that economic considerations are basic to the design and functioning of the European food supply arena, and that economic effects consolidate or induce modification of the present legal structures and principles. The assessments, analyses and examination of the various issues presented in the book serve to answer the question of how economic theory and practice can explain and enhance the shaping and modification of the regulatory framework that fosters safe and sustainable food supply chains.
Reviews
“It focuses on an economic assessment of strategies of food safety regulation and discusses the different regulatory regimes in EU food law. … The contributions serve to answer the question of how economic theory and practice can explain and enhance the shaping and modification of the regulatory framework that fosters safe and sustainable food supply chains.” (Journal of Consumer Policy, Vol. 42 (1), 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kai Purnhagen is Associate Professor at Wageningen University and distinguished international visitor at the Erasmus Universityof Rotterdam law school. Previously, he has taught and researched at various institutions including the Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, the University of Lucerne, the European University Institute, Wageningen University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, and the University of Amsterdam. He holds a PhD (European University Institute in Florence), an LL.M. (University of Wisconsin-Madison), an MJI (Justus-Liebig University of Giessen) and a State Exam in Law (Land Hessen).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Regulating and Managing Food Safety in the EU
Book Subtitle: A Legal-Economic Perspective
Editors: Harry Bremmers, Kai Purnhagen
Series Title: Economic Analysis of Law in European Legal Scholarship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77045-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77043-7Published: 09 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08356-4Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77045-1Published: 01 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2512-1294
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1308
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 380
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Law, International Economics, Business Law