Regulatory Issues in Organic Food Safety in the Asia Pacific

by Bee Chen GOH, Rohan Price

Overview

The book seeks to address the intersection of food organics and the emergence of a new contractualism between producers, distributors and consumers, and between nation states. Additionally, it seeks to cater to the needs of a discerning public concerned about how its own country aims to meet their demands for organic food quality and safety, as well as how they will benefit from integration in the standard-setting processes increasingly occurring regionally and internationally.

This edited volume brings together expert scholars and practitioners and draws on their respective insights and experiences in the field of organics, food and health safety. The book is organized in three parts. Part I outlines certain international perspectives; Part II reflects upon relevant histories and influences and finally, Part III examines the organic food regulatory regime of various jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789811535796
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	06/17/2020
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	277
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

GOH Bee Chen A former Malaysian Rhodes Scholar, GOH Bee Chen is Professor of Law and Director of the Judge-in-Residence Program, School of Law and Justice, Southern Cross University, Australia. Bee Chen has recently been a Visiting Professor at the Chiang Mai University Faculty of Law in Thailand. She is a Director and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Society and Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies in London. Besides Organics regulatory framework, Bee Chen’s current collaborative research project deals with Law and Theatre. Her scholarly interests include Mediation and ADR, especially on Cross-Cultural (Sino-Western) Dispute Resolution and International Law of Peace. Her publications include Negotiating with the Chinese (Dartmouth/Routledge, 1996), Law Without Lawyers, Justice Without Courts: On Traditional Chinese Mediation (Ashgate/Routledge, 2002), Goh, Offord and Garbutt (eds) Activating Human Rights and Peace: Theories, Practices and Contexts (Ashgate/Contributors Routledge, 2012); Farrar, Lo and Goh (eds) Scholarship, Practice and Education in Comparative Law: A Festschrift in Honour of Mary Hiscock (Springer, 2019).

Price, Rohan A lecturer in the Southern Cross University School of Law and Justice, Dr Rohan Price has established a reputation as a foremost historian of the role of nationalism in the British/Chinese colonial encounter. Rohan was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of New England (Australia) for his thesis on the use of property law to encourage civic loyalty to colonial Hong Kong between the world wars. His books including Reading Colonies: Property and Control of the British Far East and Resistance in Colonial and Communist China (1950-1963) are based on extensive archival and digital repository research. His books have been described in reviews as “passionate”, containing “argumentative strength and forthright originality” and “enormous attention to historic, theoretical and political detail”. Rohan has enjoyed lengthy stints as a visiting profssor in three Chinese universities over the last decade, teaching in fields including common law history, maritime law and the law of trusts. His interest on Chinese food safety issues was prompted by a friend in Hong Kong who, in 2008, casually mentioned he should not to buy the same brand of noodles every time he went to the supermarket.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Organic food safety and regulatory framework in the Asia Pacific (GOH Bee Chen and Rohan Price).- Part I: International perspectives on organics regulatory framework.- Chapter 2. HACCP-based quality assurance systems for the organic food sector; the need to cover food quality, safety and security (Carlo Leifert, Adam Willson and Greg Paynter).- Chapter 3. Chinese organic food law and its Impact on climate change (Ying Shen).- Chapter 4. COOL organic trade - Organic food certification influencing Asian consumerism, with a special reference to China and Thailand (GOH Bee Chen).- Part II: Histories and influences on standards.- Chapter 5. History of the current organic farming standards and auditing-based certification systems (Adam Willson, Greg Paynter and Carlo Leifert).- Chapter 6. The evolution of the organic Japanese agricultural standard system: 20 Years of history (Satoshi Kodera).- Chapter 7.Technocracy and science: Reviewing the red revolution of China through a green lens (Rohan Price).- Chapter 8. Managing food waste, improving food safety? The case of gutter oil in China (Natalie Wong).- Part III: National regulatory jurisdictions China.- Chapter 9. Regulating troika food in China: Organic food, green food and pollution-free food (Francis Snyder and Lili Ni).- Chapter 10. Regulatory issues on organic food in China (Hui Li).- Part IV: South and Southeast Asia.- Chapter 11. Examining the legal and regulatory framework governing organic food industry in India (Suhail Nathani).- Chapter 12. Organic food safety in Thailand from scientific and legal perspectives (Thararat Chitov and Alexandre Chitov).- Chapter 13. From the field to the kitchen – Securing organic farming in Thailand (Nuthamon Kongcharoen).- Chapter 14. Perception of challenges and opportunities for organic research and development in Vietnam (Van Nguyen Kien).- Chapter 15. Organic food safety regulation in Malaysia: developments andchallenges (Mohammad Firdaus Aziz and Muhamad Shakirin Mispan).- Part V: Pacific.- Chapter 16. Organic food safety in the United States (Anastasia Telesetsky).- Chapter 17. Regulation of the New Zealand organics sector (Tracey Epps).- Chapter 18. Canadian agri-food organics regulation: Enhancing food security and trade with China (Alexander Phillips).- Chapter 19. Concluding observations on the future trend of organic food safety (GOH Bee Chen and Rohan Price).