Food, risk and politics : scare, scandal and crisis : insights into the risk politics of food safety / Ed Randall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Randall, Ed, 1951- author.

Series:

EBL-Schweitzer

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--Safety measures--Government policy.

Food.

Food--Risk assessment.

Risk--Political aspects.

Risk.

Nutrition policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 230 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Online-ausg.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a book about the risk politics of food safety. Food-related risks regularly grab the headlines in ways that threaten reasoned debate and obstruct sensible policy making. This book explains why this is the case, and goes on to make the case for a properly informed and fully open public debate about food safety issues. It argues that this is the true antidote to the politics of scare, scandal, and crisis. The book weaves together the many different threads of food safety and risk politics.

Contents:

9780719072307; 9780719072307; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Salmonella and media intrusion: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; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781847796370

1847796370

9781781702918

1781702918

9781847793355

1847793355

OCLC:

818847246