Technological modifications of food are being marketed as novel products that will enhance consumer choice and nutritional value. A recent manifestation is nanotechnology, entering the global food chain through food production, pesticides, vitamins, and food packaging. This article presents a detailed literature review on risk and benefit perceptions of technological developments for food and agriculture, including our own research from US deliberative workshops on nanotechnologies. The article suggests that many of the public concerns discussed in the literature on biotechnology in food are being raised in qualitative and quantitative studies on nanotechnologies for food: although nanotechnologies are generally perceived to be beneficial, many people express particular uneasiness about nanotechnological modifications of food. The article argues that these concerns represent material examples of unresolved social issues involving technologies and the food industry, including questions about the benefits of nanotechnology for food, and the heightened values attached to food as a cultural domain.
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From Biotech to Nanotech
Public Debates about Technological Modifi cation of Food
Jennifer B. Rogers-Brown, Christine Shearer, and Barbara Herr Harthorn
In Environment and Society
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Sophie Meunier
, from anti-trust competition policy to food safety. France, then, can no longer be the policy trailblazer it used to be since so many policies are now European in scale. Simultaneously, the gradual “widening” of the EU, from the initial six countries to
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Public Evaluation of Society in China
The Social Quality Approach
Ren Liying and Zou Yuchin
of questions on the evaluation of societal safety , such as personal and family property safety, personal safety, road traffic safety, medical safety, food safety, labor safety, personal information and privacy safety, and environmental safety
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Jun 2019
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Certification Regimes in the Global Agro-Food System and the Transformation of the Nature-Society Relationship
Ecological Modernization or Modernization of Ecology?
Md Saidul Islam
wealthy nations of the global North ( Marsden 1997 ; Westgren 2004 ). Consumer concern has centered on not only long-established issues like food safety and environmental degradation but also questions of labor exploitation and gender disparity in food
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2022
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- 87–110 (24 total)
A French Paradox?
Toward an Explanation of Inconsistencies between Framing and Policies
Henri Bergeron, Patrick Castel, and Abigail C. Saguy
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In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2019
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From Urban Agriculture to Urban Food
Food System Analysis Based on Interaction Between Research, Policy, and Society
Heidrun Moschitz, Jan Landert, Christian Schader, and Rebekka Frick
food is produced in Basel” (consumer K10). An issue often raised in connection with food processing is food safety. Looking at the related activities of Basel’s administration, our sustainability analysis revealed that the city undertakes food safety
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Kosher Biotech
Between Religion, Regulation, and Globalization
Johan Fischer
we shall see below. A study by Lytton (2013) shows that the US kosher market is an example of successful private sector regulation in an era of growing public concern over the government’s ability to ensure food safety. From the 1990s onward, the
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2018
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We All We Got
Urban Black Ecologies of Care and Mutual Aid
Ashanté M. Reese and Symone A. Johnson
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In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2022
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