Horse meat scandal – A wake-up call for regulatory authorities

Premanandh, Jagadeesan

doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2013.05.033

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“…Food scandals can have an effect on food choice; the horsemeat incident and outbreaks of bacterial contamination of food are on consumers` minds for the duration of media coverage (Premanandh 2013). Although this influence is short-lived, there will be a temporary cessation of certain food groups such as processed meats.…”

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“…This perception of low quality was also influenced by media coverage of problems in the food chain such as the detection of horsemeat in beef products or the outbreak of Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) in the summer of 2011 (Premanandh 2013;Schulz et al 2014). Therefore, participants described how they adopted a system to protect themselves such as looking out for whole cuts of meats, staying away from meals such as burgers or opting for vegetarian meals.…”

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“…The 2013 horsemeat incident, 5 which became a highly publicised news story revealing perceived failures in the food supply system, also highlighted the potential costs of lengthy and complex supply chains in terms of a lack of transparency and potential loss of consumer trust (Premanandh 2013). Legislation and official guidance, often regarded as undue interference by retailers and suppliers, has been used to promote healthy eating, but may lead to further uncertainty and anxiety as can arise from consumer confusion over the proliferation of product labelling and expiry dates (Milne 2012).…”

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An agenda for integrated system-wide interdisciplinary agri-food research

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This paper outlines the development of an integrated interdisciplinary approach to agri-food research, designed to address the 'grand challenge' of global food security. Rather than meeting this challenge by working in separate domains or via single-disciplinary perspectives, we chart the development of a system-wide approach to the food supply chain. In this approach, social and environmental questions are simultaneously addressed. Firstly, we provide a holistic model of the agri-food system, which depicts the processes involved, the principal inputs and outputs, the actors and the external influences, emphasising the system's interactions, feedbacks and complexities. Secondly, we show how this model necessitates a research programme that includes the study of land-use, crop production and protection, food processing, storage and distribution, retailing and consumption, nutrition and public health. Acknowledging the methodological and epistemological challenges involved in developing this approach, we propose two specific ways forward. Firstly, we propose a method for analysing and modelling agri-food systems in their totality, which enables the complexity to be reduced to essential components of the whole system to allow tractable quantitative analysis using LCA and related methods. This initial analysis allows for more detailed quantification of total system resource efficiency, environmental impact and waste. Secondly, we propose a method to analyse the ethical, legal and political tensions that characterise such systems via the use of deliberative fora. We conclude by proposing an agenda for agri-food research which combines these two approaches into a rational programme for identifying, testing and implementing the new agri-technologies and agri-food policies, advocating the critical application of nexus thinking to meet the global food security challenge.

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“…In relation to the Horsemeat Scandal, Premanandh (2013) considers it a wake up call for regulatory authorities globally because it evidences an increase in global incidences of food misdescription and adulteration across the international food trade. Food authenticity and food safety are now of criminological concern.…”

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Critiquing the Inter-Disciplinary Literature on Food Fraud

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Manning²,

McElwee³

2017

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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The European Horsemeat Scandal of 2013 is a recent manifestation of the problem of 'Food fraud'. It is important from a criminological perspective because it exists at the nexus between organized crime and bad business practice and is a contemporary example of criminalentrepreneurship. From a practical perspective it is a pernicious criminal activity perpetuated by diverse organized-crime-groups, rogue-entrepreneurs and food-industry-insiders. It is a whitecollar-crime committed in the commercial arena, across an extended international food-chain. Geographic and policy boundaries make it difficult to police. Although a high level of awareness of the fraud exists globally, there is a dearth of critical academic research into the phenomenon. The extant literature is spread thinly across various disciplinary silos. This essay by two Business School Scholars and a Food Scientist, discusses the need to develop a more critical, interdisciplinary approach to developing appropriate theoretical frameworks.

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Horse meat scandal – A wake-up call for regulatory authorities

Cited by 187 publications

References 5 publications

Workplace foodservice; perception of quality and trust

Workplace foodservice; perception of quality and trust

An agenda for integrated system-wide interdisciplinary agri-food research

Critiquing the Inter-Disciplinary Literature on Food Fraud

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