Food System Transparency

Gabriela Steier is a lawyer, educator, speaker, and scholar focusing on food law and regulation. Her areas of focus are food system regulation in the EU and US, environmental and climate change law. She is a Part-Time Lecturer at Northeastern University, where she teaches several courses on food regulation, food safety modernization, and international food trade. She also teaches as an Adjunct Professor at the Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Perugia, Italy. As Founder of FoodLawInternational.com, she manages a vast network, hosts lecture series, and promotes academic scholarship in her field. Adam Friedlander is a food scientist focused on modernizing food safety approaches within industry, academic and consumer communities. He is a Manager, Food Safety and Technical Services at FMI – The Food Industry Association. As a dynamic member of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), International Association for Food Protection (IAFP), Conference for Food Protection (CFP) and Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO), Adam collaborates with food industry experts to help keep the global food supply safe. He serves as an Ambassador with the Partnership for Food Safety Education (PFSE) to equip consumers with foundational food safety knowledge that helps reduce foodborne illness risk.

• Foreword. Preface. Part 1 –THE BIG PICTURE. Chapter 1 – Food Fraud and Defense. Chapter 2 – Codex Alimentarius. Chapter 3 – Agroecology. Chapter 4 – Agriculture, Freedom of Speech, and the birth of Ag-Gag. Part 2 –FOOD SAFETY AND HEALTH. Chapter 5 – Foodborne Disease outbreak investigation. Chapter 6 – Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Pandemic on the United States Food System. Chapter 7 – Hawaii: Jackfruit. Part 3 –THE GLOBAL VIEW. Chapter 8 – European Union: Risk Assessment and Communication. Chapter 9 – Asia: Transparency from information-based regulation and a Chinese Case Study. Chapter 10 – Africa: Food Labeling and a Cameroon Case Study.

If your summer reading list is light on one of the biggest issues surrounding the food industry, Gabriela Steier and Adam Friedlander have you covered with their book “Food System Transparency: Law, Science and Policy of Food and Agriculture.” The 224-page book takes a look at the transparency of the food system by bringing together a variety of voices in the food industry. Chapters written by the likes of Darin Detwiler, Paul De Filippi, Juanjuan Sun and more are broken into three sections that give readers a broad look at transparency, its impact on food safety and health and the global view. -- Jason Brill, Quality Assurance Magazine, June 2021