From punishment to prevention: A French case study of the introduction of co-regulation in enforcing food safety

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• 作者：Elodie Rouviè ; re^a ; ^{elodie.rouviere@agroparistech.fr} ; Julie A. Caswell^b ; ^{caswell@isenberg.umass.edu}
• 关键词：Food safety ; Co-regulation ; Enforcement ; Import safety
• 刊名：Food Policy
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：16_03069192
• 类别：eco
• 出版时间：June, 2012
• 卷：37
• 期：3
• 页码：246-254
• 文件大小：324 K

摘要

In the last decade, the concept of co-regulation has been developed and increasingly promoted as an important instrument of regulation. In the context of food safety, we examine co-regulation programs from the point of view of an enforcement agency. We develop a conceptual framework of enforcement of food safety regulation for use in assessing the degree of shift toward co-regulation from traditional approaches and apply it to a case study of the French import market for produce at Perpignan. We find that co-regulation in the enforcement of pesticide residue limits resulted in a change of practices for the regulatory agency from punishment to prevention based on incentives and information programs.