Risk Regulation in Non-Animal Food Imports: The European Union Approach

By Veronika Jezso, Francesco Montanari, Carlo Donati

This Brief aims at providing a general understanding of the rationale - scientific as well as political - behind EU policy and related risk management decisions in the area on non-animal food imports. Lately, various menaces associated with imported food and feed of non-animal origin appeared in the media: imported sprout seeds contaminated with E. coli, strawberries containing hepatitis A or noro viruses, to name but a few, are now as much discussed as the different well-known meat scandals. The authors explain the reinforced official controls at EU borders on certain imports of non-animal origin and the wide range of EU measures that currently foresee trade restrictions for imports presenting chemical and non-chemical 'high risks' from a public health perspective (so-called 'emergency measures'). The Brief closely examines chemical (and also non-chemical) risks associated with imports of non-animal origin and their impact on human health. The authors also consider the role risk analysis is playing to underpin risk-management decisions at EU level, including the scientific output by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319140132
• ISBN13: 9783319140131
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 99 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"