Food, risk and politics Scare, scandal and crisis - insights into the risk politics of food safety /
Ed Randall.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2009.
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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. In this book, Ed Randall explains why this is the case. He goes on to make the case for a properly informed and fully open public debate about food safety issues. He argues that this is the true antidote to the politics of scare, scandal and crisis. The book skilfully weaves together the many different threads of food safety and risk politics and offers a particularly rewarding read for academics and students in the fi.