This article focuses on the state of European food safety governance and offers a view on possible future courses of regulatory policymaking. We begin by examining the deficiencies of the current multilevel governance system in European Union (EU) food safety policy, with an empirical focus on...

This paper is now published as: Bernauer, Thomas, Caduff, Ladina. 2006. Managing Risk and Regulation in European Food Safety Governance. Review of Policy Research 23/1: 153-168. Please read and cite the published version. Focusing on food safety governance in Europe we challenge this optimism in...