Ed Randall

Food, risk and politics

Scare, scandal and crisis - insights into the risk politics of food safety

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about the risk politics of food safety. It offers a lively and exceptionally readable account of food safety and risk that examines media treatment of the issue and makes the case for a fully open public debate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9780719072307
• ISBN-10: 0719072301
• Artikelnr.: 27036582

Autorenporträt

Ed Randall is Lecturer in Politics at Goldsmiths University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Salmonella and media intrusion: food safety
policy and politics upset 3. An inspector calls: Pennington, E. coli and
disaster science 4. BSE and vCJD - still crazy after all these years 5.
GMOs and food - is anyone listening? 6. Dioxin - scares without borders 7.
Foot and mouth disease - who's panicking now? 8. Conclusion Bibliography
Index