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歐美研究
Preventing and Governing Deliberate
Contamination in the Food Supply Chain
—
Case Studies of Practices in the US
,
the EU and
International Organizations
Wei-En Tan
Graduate
Institute
of
International Politics, National Chung Hsing University
No. 250, Kuo Kuang Rd., Taichung 40227, Taiwan
E-mail: jakobs
@
nchu
.
edu
.
tw
Abstract
This paper discusses current issues in the global food supply chain
(
FSC
)
. More specifically, it focuses on why it is difficult to prevent de-
liberate, criminal contamination in downstream sections of the FSC,
yet only limited harm is done to consumers. The paper also investi-
gates why it is more feasible to hamper the food contamination in the
upstream of FSC while the adverse effect could be serious given the
effective criminal behavior. Observing the practices of food safety
governance in the US, the EU and international organizations
(
the
WHO in particular
)
, the key point in preventing deliberate contami-
nation should be the management of ‘threats.’ It is worth noting that
threat assessment and critical control points
(
TACCP
)
, as an approach
to governing food safety, is certainly a considerable alternative. Thanks
to the irreversible structures and trends associated with global food
trade liberalization, current risks of food contamination from various
sources will by no means fade away. Given this, efforts to establish an
institution based on the concept of acceptable risk for preventing
threats while managing the spillover effects of damages are a pragmatic
means of defending against deliberate food-contamination.
Key Words
:
Food
Safety,
Food
Supply Chain,
Food
Terrorism, De-
liberate Food Contamination, TACCP
