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- Title
The Search for International Food Safety Regulation. From the Commission Internationale pour la répression des falsifications to the Société universelle de la Croix Blanche (1879–1909).
- Authors
Guillem-Llobat, Ximo
- Abstract
In the late-nineteenth and the early-twentieth centuries, food safety regulation experienced important changes throughout Europe and North America with the passing of several national food laws. Rising food adulteration and constant denunciation by scientists, writers, politicians or consumers, prompted the passing of these new laws at a local level. However, the laws proved limited and unsatisfactory in the context of the increasingly industrialised and globalised food chain. The growing international dimension of the food market demanded international agreements in food quality and safety regulation, and the shift towards control mainly based on chemical analysis led to a new regulation strategy: the search for standards. This paper analyses these turning points in regulation by considering the major international initiatives around the turn of the century.
- Subjects
FOOD safety policy; GOVERNMENT policy on food; TREATIES; HISTORY of associations, institutions, etc.; LAW; BORDAS, Fernand; BROUARDEL, Paul; MARKETS; INTERNATIONAL cooperation
- Publication
Social History of Medicine, 2014, Vol 27, Issue 3, p419
- ISSN
0951-631X
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1093/shm/hkt076