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Regulations, product liability, and consumer protection are three major aspects of food safety issues. They are often intertwined. This course starts with the introduction to principles of product liability and consumer protection. For the purposes of comparison, this Part uses two famous (or notorious) food safety incidents in Taiwan, namely emulsifier containing phthalate plasticizers and maleic anhydrite modified starch as examples.
Moreover, the complexity of global food trade has given rise to the difficulty and complexity in food safety regulations and enforcement today. This course also addresses the issues concerning foodborne illness, adulteration suspects, and quality problems on a case-study description and analysis bases. Diverse stories are adopted to show different kinds of situations in different parts of the world, with focuses on how the food problems originated, how the food detectives worked, and how they were managed from a regulatory perspective.
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