Lang, Iris Goldner --- "Public health in European Union food law" [2017] ELECD 589; in Hervey, K. Tamara; Young, A. Calum; Bishop, E. Louise (eds), "Research Handbook on EU Health Law and Policy" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 398

Book Title: Research Handbook on EU Health Law and Policy

Editor(s): Hervey, K. Tamara; Young, A. Calum; Bishop, E. Louise

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785364716

Section: Chapter 16

Section Title: Public health in European Union food law

Author(s): Lang, Iris Goldner

Number of pages: 29

Abstract/Description:

Iris Goldner Lang traces the development of EU food law. Its earlier days involved a food safety approach, shaped by the need to respond quickly to food safety crises of the past, especially BSE/vCJD or ‘mad cow’ disease. Contemporary concerns in EU food law include antimicrobial resistance and growing rates of obesity and nutrition-related disease. Here, as Goldner Lang highlights, the EU’s law and policy is insufficiently responsive to public health concerns.