Regulating and Managing Food Safety in the EU

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Regulating and Managing Food Safety in the EU: A Legal-Economic Perspective

   • Harry Bremmers, Kai Purnhagen

   Pages 1-9

3. Private Food Safety Standards in the EU

   • Tetty Havinga

   Pages 11-37

4. Investigating the Regulatory Structure of Voluntary Sustainability Standards: Foundations for Intervention Strategies to Increase Consumer Confidence

   • Eva van der Zee

   Pages 39-55

5. Environmental Sustainability and the Food System

   • Alessandro Banterle, Elena Claire Ricci, Alessia Cavaliere

   Pages 57-88

6. EU Health Claims: A Consumer Perspective

   • Erica van Herpen, Hans C. M. van Trijp

   Pages 89-104

7. Regulatory Compliance and Company Strategies: The Case of the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation (EC) No. 1924/2006

   • Stefanie Bröring, Sukhada Khedkar

   Pages 105-128

8. Foods for Specific Consumer Groups

   • Silvia L. Schmidt

   Pages 129-150

9. Commanding to “Nudge” via the Proportionality Principle?

   • Kai Purnhagen, Ellen van Kleef

   Pages 151-167

10. Obesity, Fat Taxes and Their Effects on Consumers

    • Silke Thiele, Jutta Roosen

    Pages 169-193

11. Substance Over Form: A Principle for European Food Information Regulation?

    • Harry Bremmers

    Pages 195-215

12. European Food Law and the Precautionary Principle: Paradoxical Effects of the EU’s Precautionary Food Policies

    • Lucas Bergkamp, Jaap C. Hanekamp

    Pages 217-244

13. Enforcement of European Food Laws

    • Franziska Weber

    Pages 245-262

14. The Economics of Harmonization of Food Law in the EU

    • Michael Faure

    Pages 263-290

15. Pre-Market Approval and Its Impact on Food Innovation: The Novel Foods Example

    • Martin Holle

    Pages 291-330

16. Agricultural Biotechnology: Regulation in the United States and the European Union

    • Margaret Rosso Grossman

    Pages 331-380

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. ​

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• 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

“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)

• Law and Governance Group, Wageningen University and Research (WUR), Wageningen, The Netherlands

  Harry Bremmers

• Law School, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  Kai Purnhagen

Dr. Harry (J.) Bremmers acquired an MSc degree in business economics at Tilburg University and in Dutch  law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. Here he was employed as assistant professor till 1993. In Rotterdam, he graduated as Phd in 1994 on a legal-economic subject (Effects of environmental law on financial reporting). In 1993-2010 he occupied a full-time position at the Business Administration group of the Social Sciences department of Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Since 2010 he occupies the position of associate professor at the Law & Governance group of Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands. He participated in several national and international projects at the interplay of law and economics and has published on a broad range of legal and economic topics. He is specialized in food information law.

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).

 

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