CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN FOOD LAW

AUTHOR – RIMI AGARWAL, STUDENT AT MANIPAL UNIVERSITY JAIPUR, JAIPUR

Best Citation – RIMI AGARWAL, CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN FOOD LAW, ILE JOURNAL OF FOOD LAW AND POLICY (ILE JFLP), 1 (1) of 2023, Pg. 30-35, APIS – 3920 – 0060 | ISBN – 978-81-964391-3-2.

ABSTRACT

This article addresses several topics that have an impact on how food safety laws are evolving in industrialized and, to a lesser extent, developing nations. While not conclusive, it seeks to draw attention to those elements that are seen as essential to comprehending modern food safety procedures in both the public and private realms. The criteria used to evaluate the necessity or justification of food safety regulation, the connections between public and private food safety control systems, alternative configurations for public food safety regulation, tactical responses to food safety regulation, and the effects of national food safety controls on trade are some of these issues. These topics are introduced in the article and covered in more detail in the other pieces that make up this special issue of Food Policy.

In light of recent human rights legislation, historical precedent, and the glare of contemporary globalization, food law is inescapably worldwide. However, there are still significant differences in national and international policies regarding trade barriers and tariffs, the provision of aid, procedures to control the production of crops as well as the growing, selling, contaminating, labeling, and distributing of food. The same goes for legal reactions, such as criminal culpability, coroner’s inquiries, and regulators’ civil liabilities.

To explore the potential to reduce inconsistencies, based on scientific approaches to health and safety, and to create coherent approaches to what are essentially transnational dilemmas, there is much to be said for improved discourse about such issues at an international level through an International Association of Food Law and Policy.

KEYWORDS – Health, food policy and law, safety, procedures, quality