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Quality, safety and choice: a European food policy for the 1990s
Author(s) -
SAUNDERS BARBARA
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
nutrition bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.933
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1467-3010
pISSN - 1471-9827
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-3010.1991.tb01049.x
Subject(s) - food safety , common agricultural policy , context (archaeology) , european community , quality (philosophy) , politics , business , food policy , agriculture , agricultural policy , action (physics) , food security , economic policy , political science , european union , international trade , medicine , law , geography , philosophy , physics , archaeology , epistemology , pathology , quantum mechanics
Summary The European Community is fortunate to have sufficient food to be able to address the issues of quality, safely and choice rather than sufficiency alone. When the EC was founded in 1958, agricultural issues dominated, with the need to secure a regular supply of food high on the political agenda. It was that concern which produced the Common Agricultural Policy. Now, in a more prosperous, high tech age, consumers are able to concentrate on how food is produced, what they want to buy, and the level of safety appropriate. It is in this context that the European Community's food policy, and the action necessary if the Community (that is the 12 Member States, with their 350 million consumers) is to establish a food policy which will suit the twenty‐first century, is considered.