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.
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Manchester ; New York : New York :
Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan ,
2009
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Table of Contents:
- 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