Horsemeat Scandal Turns into a Food Safety Crisis

From Alberto Alemanno's blog, February 20, 2013 12:00 AM

Although the current horsemeat scandal has been depicted as an instance of fraud and mislabeling generated by a single source, it is progressively escalating into a broader food safety crisis that reveals some flaws in our EU food safety system. Yet relying on country-of-origin-labelling – as many have invoked it – to tackle misleading labeling of food ingredients might be the wrong answer to the good question raised by this unfortunate story. . . . 

Alberto reviews facts and the timeline of events in the scandal and then provides an analysis that identifies the flaws of the current EU regulatory framework and provides some recommendations.

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