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We use FDA's seafood inspection records to examine: (i) how FDA has targeted its inspections under HACCP regulation … relationship between HACCP regulations and pre-existing sanitation standards. We use a theoretical model of enforcement to derive …; (ii) the effects of FDA inspections on compliance with both HACCP and plant sanitation standards; and (iii) the …
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The Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) is a complex agreement under the umbrella of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and concerns the interplay between governmental measures concerning risk for human, animal and plant life or health, the necessary scientific...
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oversight of imported food. The FSMA brings the FDA’s food safety regulation in line with core tenets of public health by … to its enforcement capabilities. In an increasingly globalized food environment, the FSMA gives the FDA new authority to … food regulatory agencies to help build capacity. Through new tools and increased enforcement, the FSMA holds great promise …
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. The introduction of informal penalties, if dependent upon formal ones, implies that: (i) the optimal enforcement regime …
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Although few citizens outside of the livestock industry have heard about this veterinary drug, ractopamine is set to become not only the source of public concern but also the trigger of another endless transatlantic trade dispute. After years of scientific and political deadlock, the Codex...
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International standards are central to domestic rule-making processes. While these standards-developed outside the WTO-are in and of themselves not binding, the SPS Agreement gives them a quasi-binding character as WTO members must provide scientific justification should they wish to deviate...
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This article evaluates the evolving jurisprudence on the precautionary approach (Article 5.7 of the SPS Agreement) in World Trade Organization dispute settlement. While the jurisprudence demonstrates that panels and the Appellate Body have balanced a Member’s precautionary autonomy with the...
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recently reformed European regulation of food. Yet, the Authority merely represents one of the components of an entirely new …
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This volume provides a contextual analysis of EU food law and policy by bringing together for the first time the viewpoints of academics, policymakers, industry representatives as well as those of food practitioners who are exposed daily to this emerging area of study and practice. It is timed...
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A pressing need in the area of food safety is a tool for making overall, macro judgments about which risks should be given priority for management. Governments often seek to base this prioritization on public health impacts only to find that other considerations also influence the prioritization...
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