Risk-based approaches to food safety regulation: what role for co-regulation?

Martinez, Marian Garcia, Verbruggen, Paul and Fearne, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4910-046X (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

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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
Uncontrolled Keywords:	food safety,co-regulation,risk-based regulation,public-private regulatory partnerships,accountability,enterprises,management,standards,framework
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Innovation, Technology and Operations Management
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2015 09:14
Last Modified:	26 May 2024 06:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/54281
DOI:	10.1080/13669877.2012.743157

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