International Food Law
Bernd van der Meulen (2010)
The Global Arena of Food Law: Emerging Contours of a Meta-Framework
Erasmus Law Review, Vol. 3, No. 4, p. 217, 2010
Food is one of the most regulated social and economic sectors. At the global level several organisations such as the UN, FAO, WHO, the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the WTO play a role in food governance through formulating and enforcing rules regarding production, manufacturing, trade and distribution. These rules are based on a variety of motives such as protecting human rights, promoting health, ensuring food security, ensuring food safety, promoting fair or free trade, dealing with incidents and promoting economic development. Despite the variety in sources and motives generally these rules seem to reinforce rather than contradict each other. In this sense a global system of food law seems to be emerging. Among other things, this system puts emphasis on the role of science through the risk analysis methodology. At closer inspection the global system of food law appears not to address stakeholders’ behaviour regarding food, but rather the national regulatory frameworks addressing such behaviour. In this way global food law is a meta-framework for the food sector.
Bernd van der Meulen (2018)
Codex Alimentarius. The impact of the joint FAO/WHO food standards programme on EU food law
European Institute for Food Law working paper series 2018/04
The FAO and the WHO have set up a joint food standards programme with at its core the Codex Alimentarius Commission. The Codex Alimentarius Commission has a membership base of its own. It adopts standards by consensus of its member countries, based on the scientific input from risk assessment bodies that also form part of the joint FAO/WHO food standards programme. The purpose of the standards of the Codex Alimentarius is to harmonise national and regional food legislation at a global level. This paper explores to what extent the influence of the Codex Alimentarius is actually present in EU food law. To this end, it identifies the major fields of EU food law on the basis of a pre-existing framework for analysis. The paper shows that the Codex Alimentarius is present in all these major fields in concepts, methods, principles and rules of conduct for food businesses.
Tros Radar (2018)
Codex Alimentarius
Consumer programme on Dutch tv in Dutch language explaining the meaning of the Codex Alimentarius.
Bernd van der Meulen (2010)
The Global Arena of Food Law: Emerging Contours of a Meta-Framework
Erasmus Law Review, Vol. 3, No. 4, p. 217, 2010
Food is one of the most regulated social and economic sectors. At the global level several organisations such as the UN, FAO, WHO, the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the WTO play a role in food governance through formulating and enforcing rules regarding production, manufacturing, trade and distribution. These rules are based on a variety of motives such as protecting human rights, promoting health, ensuring food security, ensuring food safety, promoting fair or free trade, dealing with incidents and promoting economic development. Despite the variety in sources and motives generally these rules seem to reinforce rather than contradict each other. In this sense a global system of food law seems to be emerging. Among other things, this system puts emphasis on the role of science through the risk analysis methodology. At closer inspection the global system of food law appears not to address stakeholders’ behaviour regarding food, but rather the national regulatory frameworks addressing such behaviour. In this way global food law is a meta-framework for the food sector.
Bernd van der Meulen (2018)
Codex Alimentarius. The impact of the joint FAO/WHO food standards programme on EU food law
European Institute for Food Law working paper series 2018/04
The FAO and the WHO have set up a joint food standards programme with at its core the Codex Alimentarius Commission. The Codex Alimentarius Commission has a membership base of its own. It adopts standards by consensus of its member countries, based on the scientific input from risk assessment bodies that also form part of the joint FAO/WHO food standards programme. The purpose of the standards of the Codex Alimentarius is to harmonise national and regional food legislation at a global level. This paper explores to what extent the influence of the Codex Alimentarius is actually present in EU food law. To this end, it identifies the major fields of EU food law on the basis of a pre-existing framework for analysis. The paper shows that the Codex Alimentarius is present in all these major fields in concepts, methods, principles and rules of conduct for food businesses.
Tros Radar (2018)
Codex Alimentarius
Consumer programme on Dutch tv in Dutch language explaining the meaning of the Codex Alimentarius.