EFFL 2|2009 Editorial 103 Editorial This year’s first issue of EFFL had a special focus theme: The precautionary principle and its application and interpretation in Europe, the US and Canada. Of course, this highly relevant topic has attracted other EFFL-authors before, e.g. Marco Bronckers and Ravi Soopramanien with their article “The Impact of WTO Law on European Food Regulation” in issue 6/2006, highly recommended as reading by me to everybody, who missed it