Societal issues: risk communication and stakeholder participation

摘要

The governance of food safety has long been regarded as the domain of "experts" and professional risk managers, with minimal input from other interested parties, such as consumers. However, a number of food safety incidents in Europe in the latter years of the twentieth century (GMOs, BSE, dioxins, ....) have severely damaged public trust in food safety regulation and management and exposed the need for improvements in the current approach to food risk analysis.