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Author Randall, Ed, 1951-

Title Food, risk and politics : Scare, scandal and crisis - insights into the risk politics of food safety / Ed Randall.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Food -- Safety measures -- Government policy.
Food -- Safety measures.
Government policy.
Food -- Risk assessment.
Food.
Risk assessment.
Risk -- Political aspects.
Risk.
Nutrition policy.
Nutrition policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Randall, Ed. Food, risk and politics. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2009 9780719072307
ISBN 9781847793355 electronic book
1847793355 electronic book
9781781702918 electronic book
1781702918 electronic book