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The principles outlined in the General Food Law (Regulation 178/2002) inform all European Union and national measures relating to food and feed, which in turn regulate all stages of the human food supply chain as well as feed produced for (or fed to) food-producing animals.The circumstances and events giving rise to the creation of what is a comprehensive, complex and integrated approach to food control and food safety in the European Union may therefore be of interest to ...
The principles outlined in the General Food Law (Regulation 178/2002) inform all European Union and national measures relating to food and feed, which in turn regulate all stages of the human food supply chain as well as feed produced for (or fed to) food-producing animals.
The circumstances and events giving rise to the creation of what is a comprehensive, complex and integrated approach to food control and food safety in the European Union may therefore be of interest to anyone involved in the production, processing, distribution, and marketing of food in Europe.
Having provided a firm legislative basis for concepts such as ‘farm-to-fork’ regulation and the Precautionary Principle, an understanding of the development of Regulation 178/2002 also serves to explain the origin of broader themes that continue to inform EU food regulation and food safety policies today, and why those policies differ from those adopted elsewhere.
A short article sketching the key political and legal events leading up to the creation of the General Food Law is contained in the News & Insights section of the McDowell Purcell website at the following link.
Authors: James Gallagher and JP McDowell