萌芽的技術をめぐる食品安全の課題とレギュラトリーサイエンス : ナノテクノロジーを事例として

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Regulatory science (RS) is expected to play a vital role for risk analysis process within regulatory system on food safety. In this paper, based on the definition of RS elucidated by Science Council of Japan, two aspects of RS are taken into account; one is RSs role to support administrative decision-making and the other is its role to adjust or orient how science/technology is applied to society. However, the very nature of emerging science/technology poses various issues related to these two aspects of RS. In this paper I will exemplify these issues using the case of food nanotechnologies (FN), such as difficulty of creating regulatory definition of FN and unintended dynamics caused by introduction of regulatory actions. In the latter part of this paper, I will describe current situation of regulatory developments of FN in US, EU and Japan, and draw preliminary lessons currently FN is facing based on the information drawn from three research experiments, including participatory methods and expert panel in Japan.