Is current EU food safety law geared up for fighting food fraud?

Meulen, Bernd van der

doi:10.1007/s00003-015-0992-2

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“…First, BOs are under obligation to keep authorities updated regarding their online activities. 19 Second, it allows authorities to engage in mystery-shopping. I.e.…”

Section: Official Controls Onlinementioning

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Enforcement of EU agri-food law

Meulen

2018

ERA Forum

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A new Official Controls Regulation comes into force in the agri-food sector of the EU. This article analyses the Regulation from the perspective of the various stakeholders. It appears that the Regulation is mainly instrumental in nature. It provides a toolbox to competent authorities in the Member States. Instruments are provided for inspection and to rectify non-compliances. It is weaker in providing checks and balances to food businesses. It does protect whistle-blowers. Empowerment of victims and consumers is totally absent.

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“…First, BOs are under obligation to keep authorities updated regarding their online activities. 19 Second, it allows authorities to engage in mystery-shopping. I.e.…”

Section: Official Controls Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…64 Competent authorities can perform official controls through mystery shopping online. 65 Among the mea- 61 Van der Meulen [19]. 62 Corini [2].…”

Section: Enforcement Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

Enforcement of EU agri-food law

Meulen

2018

ERA Forum

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“…Agro-food “Made in Italy” products—with features evoking an “Italian” concept in the world, including history, culture, and tradition (Napolitano et al, 2015 ; Temperini et al, 2016 )—are typical goods of the Mediterranean diet [Antimiani and Henke, 2007 ; ISMEA (Istituto di Servizi per il Mercato Agricolo Alimentare) and Fondazione Qualivita, 2018 ], and they currently spearhead Italian exports in terms of technologies, procedures, and intrinsic transformation of raw materials (Carbone and Henke, 2012 ; Caiazza and Volpe, 2014 ; Coldiretti, 2015 ). The European Commission has adopted several regulations on the application of EU quality schemes for the agro-food sector (Barjolle and Sylvander, 2000 ; European Commission, 2016 ), in order to protect typical products and to provide quality guarantee (Van der Meulen, 2015 ). The compulsory affixing of PDO, Protected Designation of Origin; PGI, Protected Geographical Indication; TSG, Traditional Specialty Guaranteed labels to products ensures consumers' safety with certification of working methods, reputation of places of production, traceability, and risk management of food (World Trade Organization, 1994 ).…”

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Italian Food? Sounds Good! Made in Italy and Italian Sounding Effects on Food Products' Assessment by Consumers

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Italian Sounding—i. e., the Italian appearance of a product or service brand irrespective of its country of origin—represents a global market phenomenon affecting a wide range of economic sectors, particularly the agro-food sector. Although its economic impact has been repeatedly stressed from different points of view (policy, economy, culture, etc.), systematic scientific knowledge regarding its social–psychological bases is lacking. Three studies carried out in three different countries (Italy, China, and USA) address this literature gap. Different consumer groups (both native and/or non-native) are targeted regarding major product categories pre-selected categories, which are the major Italian food goods within the specific country according to piloting (oil and/or pasta). In each study, the main independent variable (product version) has been manipulated by presenting real product images (previously pre-selected within the tested food category in each country market), whose “Italianness” degree is effectively manipulated by the main study variable (product version) across three or four levels (Protected Designation of Origin Made in Italy, Made in Italy, Italian Sounding, and Generic Foreign). Main hypotheses are tested via a survey with the specific product images administered to samples in Italy (N = 204, 148 Italians and 56 non-Italians), China (N = 191, 100 Chinese and 91 non-Italian expatriates in China), and the USA (N = 237 US citizens). Across the three studies, results show that Made in Italy products, compared to the other ones, are advantaged in terms of the main dependent variables: reputation profile, general reputation, attitude, and willingness to pay (WTP). Moreover, Italian Sounding products are endowed with corresponding significant advantages when compared to the Generic Foreign by non-Italian samples (although to a different degree according to the different sub-samples). Results reveal the specific social–psychological profile of Italian Sounding products in terms of either weaknesses or strengths when compared to both Made in Italy products and Generic Foreign ones, differently in the eyes of Italian and non-Italian consumers across different countries. Finally, consistently across the three studies, the extent to which a food product is perceived to be Italian increases consumers' WTP for that product, and this effect is consistently mediated by the product's reputation.

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“…Access to safe food is a basic individual right [2]. Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), stated: ''food safety is a hidden and often overlooked problem'' [2].…”

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“…This is true especially for Muslims that are ordered by the Qur'an to consume and/or use Halal Products and Thoyyib. Therefore, in Indonesia, the right to safe products (Thoyyib) and halal are human rights is protected and guaranteed by law, namely in Article 28E paragraph (1) and Article 29 paragraph (2) [3].…”

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An analysis of legal protection of halal and thoyib food consumers in court judgments

Wiryani

Najih

Haris

2018

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Abstract. The compliance of sufficient, halal and thoyib (safe, quality standard, and nutritive) food needs for Muslim consumers is confirmed as human rights which is pledged by international law, Constitution 1945, Act of Human Rights, Act of Health, Act of Consumers Protection, Act of Food, Act of Halal Product Warranty, and the other regulations. The status of Halal Product for Muslim consumers becomes a sensitive issue since it is related to spiritual life that has a consequence in this life and the afterlife. This consumer protection is shown by the obligation of distribution food permit issued by the National Agency of Drug and Food Control (BPOM) and halal certification issued by LPPOM-MUI. Halal certification significantly affects positively towards the buying interest of Muslim consumers that is allied with the profit addition for business actors. Imported or domestic food distributions, which have no distribution permit and halal certification/ non-halal or expired permit alignment, may endanger the consumers' health and life. The business owners that allegedly distributed nonstandardized food would be sentenced by administrative charge, civil sanction, and criminal sanction. However, the law enforcement of food consumer protection that appears from the court judgment is not optimal yet. Consequently, there is less guarantee of legal certainty of consumer protection and legal compliance for business actors. Therefore, the optimization of law enforcement of halal and thoyib food consumer protection needs to be done through the following efforts: reformulation of criminal sanctions; improving professionalism and sensitiveness of law enforcement; and increasing community participation.

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Is current EU food safety law geared up for fighting food fraud?

Cited by 18 publications

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Enforcement of EU agri-food law

Enforcement of EU agri-food law

Italian Food? Sounds Good! Made in Italy and Italian Sounding Effects on Food Products' Assessment by Consumers

An analysis of legal protection of halal and thoyib food consumers in court judgments

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