Garcia Martinez, Marian, Verbrugger, Paul, Fearne, Andrew (2013) Risk-Based Approaches to Food Safety Regulation: What role for Co-regulation? Journal of Risk Research, 16 (9). pp. 1101-1121. ISSN 1366-9877. E-ISSN 1466-4461. (doi:10.1080/13669877.2012.743157) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:33315)
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2012.743157 |
Abstract
Food safety regulation is a key policy area that has witnessed an increasing alignment of risk and regulation. This paper examines the emergence and operation of co-regulation – a hybrid form of regulation in which public and private actors coordinate their respective regulatory activities – within the increasingly risk-based approaches to food safety management. On the basis of an analysis of emerging co-regulatory arrangements to food safety in the European Union, the paper contends that there are considerable difficulties in implementing such hybrid arrangements and deepens the basic preconditions under which they can attain the social goal of safe food supply. Specifically, it is argued that a regulatory framework that fosters public oversight and warrants data sharing and information exchange between the public and private actors involved is needed for the attainment of that goal. This framework has to be responsive to changing risk profiles and industry environments to ensure that food safety controls are risk-based, transparent and not captured by industry interests. This is particularly crucial for encouraging voluntary compliance as well as efficient allocation of limited regulatory resources.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1080/13669877.2012.743157 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | food safety, co-regulation, risk-based regulation, public–private regulatory partnerships |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
Divisions: |
Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Economics Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Marketing, Entrepreneurship and International Business |
Depositing User: | Catherine Norman |
Date Deposited: | 06 Mar 2013 17:04 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 10:16 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/33315 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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