Regulating and Managing Food Safety in the EU

Dr. Harry (J.) Bremmers acquired an MSc degree in business economics at Tilburg University and in Dutch  law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. Here he was employed as assistant professor till 1993. In Rotterdam, he graduated as Phd in 1994 on a legal-economic subject (Effects of environmental law on financial reporting). In 1993-2010 he occupied a full-time position at the Business Administration group of the Social Sciences department of Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Since 2010 he occupies the position of associate professor at the Law & Governance group of Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands. He participated in several national and international projects at the interplay of law and economics and has published on a broad range of legal and economic topics. He is specialized in food information law.Kai Purnhagen is Associate Professor at Wageningen University and distinguished international visitor at the Erasmus Universityof Rotterdam law school. Previously, he has taught and researched at various institutions including the Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, the University of Lucerne, the European University Institute, Wageningen University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, and the University of Amsterdam. He holds a PhD (European University Institute in Florence), an LL.M. (University of Wisconsin-Madison), an MJI (Justus-Liebig University of Giessen) and a State Exam in Law (Land Hessen).

• Regulating and Managing Food Safety in the EU: A Legal-Economic Perspective.- Private Food Safety Standards in the EU.- Investigating the Regulatory Structure of Voluntary Sustainability Standards Foundations for Intervention Strategies to Increase Consumer Confidence.- Environmental Sustainability and the Food System.- EU Health Claims: A Consumer Perspective.- Regulatory Compliance and Company Strategies: The Case of the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation (EC) No. 1924/2006.- Foods for Specific Consumer Groups.- Commanding to “Nudge” via the Proportionality Principle?.- Obesity, Fat Taxes and their Effects on Consumers.- ‘Substance over form’ – A Principle for European Food Information Regulation? .- European Food Law and the Precautionary Principle – Paradoxical Effects of the EU’s Precautionary Food Policies.- Enforcement of European Food Laws.- The Economics of Harmonization of Food Law in the EU.- Pre-Market Approval and its Impact on Food Innovation – The Novel FoodsExample.- Agricultural Biotechnology: Regulation in the United States and the European Union.

“It focuses on an economic assessment of strategies of food safety regulation and discusses the different regulatory regimes in EU food law. … The contributions serve to answer the question of how economic theory and practice can explain and enhance the shaping and modification of the regulatory framework that fosters safe and sustainable food supply chains.” (Journal of Consumer Policy, Vol. 42 (1), 2019)