The New Regulation and Governance of Food: Beyond the Food Crisis?

The volume documents the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE (mad cow disease) crisis of the late 1990s. It provides a contemporary and (social science-based) interdisciplinary analysis of the new processes involved in the contested regulation and accountability for food in the EU. The book brings together a theoretical and empirical analysis and a new governance model of the 'post-BSE period' and assesses the changing nature of three sets of actors: private interests: such as the corporate retailers; public regulators such as the EU directorates (DG SANCO), Agriculture and Trade, as well as Member State actors such as DEFRA and the FSA; and the Consumer groups at EU and national levels. The analysis produces a new model and a new synthesis on food policy and regulation.