Food Safety: Science, Politics and the Law journal article Miguel Girela European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 1 (2006), Issue 1, Page 6 Food Safety: Science, Politics and the Law I. The conceptual problem regarding diverse scientific fields When we talk about food safety, we frequently refer to different concepts. Some authors have made the effort to elaborate lists with dozens of definitions. 1 This diversity of concepts is principally due to the fact that food safety is studied within different disciplines and to the multiplicity of interests that converge on it. According to Sage,
Law and Obesity journal article Miguel Girela European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 1 (2006), Issue 4, Page 10 I. Obesity as a growing public health problem: the global epidemic and the cases of Europe and Spain We can say that obesity is an excess of fat or adipose tissue in relation to age, sex, and height.1 The generally accepted system for determining overweight and obesity, with slight variations, is the Body Mass Index (BMI) which is weight in kilograms divided by height in square meters (BMI= kg/m2).2 Overweight3 is defined as a BMI of 25 to 29.9 k
‘Meat me in Italy’: The Italian Ban on Meat-Sounding Names and Cell-Cultured Meat Francesco Planchenstainer