EU Food Law: Protecting Consumers and Health in a Common Market
Caoimhín MacMaoláin - Hart, 2007
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This is the first comprehensive analysis
of the European Union law of food regulation. It details the way in which EU law
impacts upon the production and sale of food throughout the Union. It examines
the legal protection accorded to the free movement of food within the EU,
discussing those circumstances in which Member States may derogate from this
principle, in particular where this is done to protect human health or safeguard
consumer interests. Chapter four discusses and places in context the
international trade law influences on EU food law. Chapter five describes EU
responses to recent food safety crises - avian influenza and BSE. The book also
deals with issues such as nutrition law and policy, obesity, GMOs, organic food,
animal welfare and food naming and labelling. This book offers an account of the
historical, political, sociological and jurisprudential context of European
Union food law. The author, who is an academic and consultant in this area,
translates the legal and scientific complexities of food law into a lucid and
compelling narrative. The resulting work will also prove an indispensable guide
to the practitioner
