Governing Nano Foods: Principles-Based Responsive Regulation

Bernd van der Meulen (Bachelor/Masters of Law, Masters of Governance, PhD Law) is the head of the Law and Governance Group of Wageningen University, President & co-founder of the Dutch Food Law Association (NVLR) and Director of European Institute for Food Law where he is a supervisor of PhD-researchers and students in organisation, quality assessment, mediation and conflict resolution and served as chair of the exams committee of the Department of Social Sciences at Wageningen University (2002-2012) Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

• ForewordExecutive SummaryIntroductionRequirements for food safety regulationSafety frame applied to food applications of nanotechnologyCase-by-case premarket approvalNano-specific regulationRegulatory burdenA learning systemConclusions and way forwardAnnexes:Analytical frameworkOn the delineation of the concept 'nanotechnology'Lessons learned from selected regulatory reviewsNanotechnology in proposed regulationResearch team

"The report discusses testing and improving regulatory infrastructures or building new ones to ensure food safety in the face of challenges posed by nanotechnologies. It argues for a principles-based regulatory framework for nanotechnologies, in contrast to conventional rule-based approaches…"--ProtoView.com, April 2014