The basic question on which roles should government and industry play in providing for an optimal food safety system is answered in this book, by taking a look on how these roles are evolving in a number of important meat (beef) producing and exporting countries (UK, USA, Australia and Canada)....

This chapter begins with a detailed discussion of the drivers for change within the UK food safety system, followed by developments in the institutional arrangements in the British beef sector. It finishes up with the implications of these developments.

Discussions on how USA, Canada, Australia, and UK are doing with respect to achieving an optimal food safety system are presented, including discussions on how these 4 countries have harnessed the various drivers for change and how well they have chosen meta-rules. A section discussing the...

A discussion on how the bovine spongiform encephalitis outbreak in the UK and some parts of Europe has galvanized the policy of the European Union and its individual countries regarding food safety.

This chapter analyses mass media coverage of agrobiotechnology in a risk communication framework using content analysis. Coverage in US and UK newspapers over the period 1990-99 is analysed. In particular, the chapter examines how environmental and food safety risks and benefits have been...

This book discusses and compares the institutional arrangements or rules for food safety and international competitiveness in the UK, Canada, US and Australia. It also offer a framework of towards optimal food safety system by: (1) harnessing market megatrends and international and local...

This chapter addresses the impact of food scares on prices at different stages of the marketing chain (retail, wholesale and producer) and studies the nature of price adjustment in the UK beef market in response to the outbreak, increased awareness and likely effects of bovine spongiform...

This paper provides comparative data from a number of countries and documents the trends towards more suspicion and concerns regarding GM foods in many countries. Suspicion is related to food safety risk and to environmental risk. European consumers are more concerned than US consumers,...