Food, risk and politics : scare, scandal and crisis : insights into the risk politics of food safety

Food-related risks regularly grab the headlines in ways that threaten reasoned debate and obstruct sensible policy making. In this book, Ed Randall explains why that is.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Randall, Ed , 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan , 2009
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-225) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Salmonella and media instrusion: food safety policy and politics upset -- 3. An inspector calls: Pennington, E. Coli and disaster science -- 4. BSE and vCJD - still crazy after all these years -- 5. GMOs and food - is anyone listening? -- 6. Dioxin - scares without borders -- 7. Foot-and-mouth disease - who's panicking now? -- 8. Conclusion 
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650 0 |a Food   |x Risk assessment 
650 0 |a Food   |x Safety measures   |x Government policy 
650 0 |a Nutrition policy 
650 0 |a Risk   |x Political aspects 
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