Conceptual Change and Components of the International Food Safety Regime

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Food safety is among the phenomena affecting the global policy making in the recent years and it has entered into the literature of international relations as a serious discussion. For the past two decades, food safety has become the focus of attention of international actors via organs affiliated to the UNO and we are gradually witnessing the formation of the international food safety regime. What is the nature of the international food safety regime? This research would generalize the three elements of an international regime i.e. “normalization functions”, “establishment of international regulations” and “regulatory system” to the case of food safety and it would be clarified that the international food safety regime is recognizable as one independent regime. The international food safety regime is already illuminating the need of security theories to focus on soft and civil aspects in analyzing the components of insecurity. In this study a model for international food safety regime is offered compared to other international regimes.

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