Lara Fornabaio, Margherita Poto

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 11 (2016), Issue 4, Page 315 - 323

Risk analysis applied to the food sector was designed on a science-based approach, aiming to limit the discretionary power of the public administration and provide objectivity to a decision that could dangerously tend towards partiality. A new approach should include good administration principles, in order to achieve an outcome that does not only mirror the scientific interest but also reflects the effective public perception of risk.

Margherita Poto

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 5 (2010), Issue 4, Page 227 - 234

This article analyses food safety on the Asian continent, with a particular focus on the Japanese situation and a comparison with other systems. After food scandals such as the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) outbreak, Japan reacted by approving new provisions for food safety, such as the establishment of new legislation and a new administrative organisation centring on consumers and based on risk analysis. In particular, the article will scrutinise the main legal provisions actually in force in Japan in an attempt to map similarities and differences with other legal systems, in particular the Chinese system and the European one.

Francesca Pavoni, Margherita Poto

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 4 (2009), Issue 6, Page 9

1. Introductory remarks This article provides an analysis of the way in which the issue of food safety is being tackled in the People’s Republic of China, in order to see how the concept and the contents of the Chinese regulations in Food Safety differ from the European Food Safety Law. For sure, there are also similarities, which allow the two systems to be compared: the most obvious one concerns the compliance with the International standards. For t