The Emerging Global Food System: Public and Private Sector Issues / Edition 1

by Gerald E. Gaull, Ray A. Goldberg

Overview

An outstanding group of leading contributors in the food industry and agriculture discuss such issues as international regulation of food, biotechnical applications and acceptance of bioengineered food products, global trade and tariffs connected with nourishment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471590729
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/17/1993
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Gerald E. Gaull is the editor of The Emerging Global Food System: Public and Private Sector Issues, published by Wiley. Ray A. Goldberg is the editor of The Emerging Global Food System: Public and Private Sector Issues, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Partial table of contents:

THE ROLE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN CHANGING THE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM (R.Goldberg).

The Paradox of Need vs.

Overabundance (J. Taylor).

REGULATING THE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM: HARMONIZATION AND HURDLES (C.Jackson).

Regulating Biotechnological Products (R. Tsugawa).

INTERNATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL FOOD ISSUES.

Changes in the European Common Agricultural Policy (R.Jackson).

DIET AND CANCER: THE POLITICS OF RISK COMMUNICATION (D.Nelkin).

Nutrition and Cancer: An Historical Scientific Perspective (J.Higginson).

RISK MANAGEMENT AND RISK PERCEPTION.

Food Safety as an Element of Risk Assessment and Management (D.Bromley).

THE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM: INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVES.

Government Regulation of Health Messages (A. Langbo).

THE EMERGING GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM: CONCLUSIONS (G. Gaull & R.Goldberg).

Biographies of Contributors.

Identities of Discussants.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

A wide range of aspects surrounding the emergence of a global food system are addressed in 22 papers and panel discussions from the second Ceres Conference, October to November 1991 in Washington, D.C. The sections cover the role of new technologies, regulations, international and transnational issues, exporting and managing the risk of cancer, and industrial perspectives. An introduction and a conclusion are also included. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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