Citation

Rouvière E, Caswell JA. Food Policy 2012; 37(3): 246-254.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.02.009

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

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.

Language: en