飼料安全規制における共同規制

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Ensuring food safety to protect public health and promote economic development remains a significant challenge in both developing and developed countries. Considerable progress to strengthen food safety systems has been achieved in many countries, highlighting the opportunities to reduce and prevent food-borne diseases. During the last several decades, risk assessment, risk management and risk communication have been formalized and incorporated into a process known as risk analysis. This new approach enables information on hazards in food to be linked directly to data on the risks to human health, a process that was not considered in the past. By providing a science-based approach to improve food safety decision-making processes, risk analysis contributes to a reduction in the incidence of food-borne disease and continuous improvements in food safety. After the BSE crisis and dioxin crisis, the European Union (EU) established a new legal framework in 2002. The EU Commission drastically revised its food safety policy. These revisions cover the complete food chain, all aspects of food products “ from farm to table” (from animal feed production to consumer health protection), and clearly attribute primary responsibility for safe food production to industries, producers and suppliers.Co-regulation is a mechanism of rule-making that is based on the EU legislative act that entrusts the achievement of the defined objectives to private parties. Therefore, it is a “ mixed public-private” act that combines legislative authority with self-regulatory action. The European Feed Manufacturers' Federation (FEFAC) played an important role in formulating the main amendments of this regulation by using co-regulation and the comitology procedure. After the outbreak of the BSE in Japan, the feed and food safety system in Japan changed in line with the example of the EU food safety policy. As with the EU, such changes in Japan cover the entire food chain. The process management concept was introduced into the feed safety legislative framework. However, feed business operators in Japan have few opportunities to engage in constructive dialogue and cooperation with regulators. Additionally, there is no feed legislative framework for co-regulation in Japan. There are many unsolved issues concerning a legislative framework and the application of feed legislation in Japan. The objective of this article is to put forward suggestions on how to improve feed legislation by examining a co-regulation study on Japanese legislation.JEL Classification: I18, L51, Q13, Q18

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