● Vicente Rodríguez Fuentes et al., “From agricultural to food law”. Wageningen
Academic Publishers (2014) 192 pp.
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Summary
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The differences between agricultural law and food law are becoming
progressively blurred. This is only natural because both intend to control that
food products placed in the market are safe and respond to a certain standard
of quality. In their present form, both are relatively new legal disciplines,
evolving and expanding very rapidly and a great number of new and
transcendental regulations (and an increasing number of compulsory private
rules) are being enacted to respond to new realities.
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One of these new realities is the legal protection of quality in food.
Once almost exclusively applied to a limited number of traditional well-known
products and now extended to many products covered by designations of origin or
geographical indications. Another area is food safety, a major concern of the
legislator. Food alerts, recalls and withdrawals have been carefully regulated
to guarantee a rapid and efficient reaction, but these legal mechanisms appear
to be less well-designed when dealing with the unwanted consequences of
unjustified alerts. A third topic is food prices and trading conditions, an
area that cannot always be completely left to unregulated market-forces due to
the special nature of the product involved.
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The above issues are analysed by several experts from different legal
backgrounds and countries, a varied approach adequate to the hybrid nature of
food law.
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