Aggiornamenti di diritto agroalimentare nella riflessione dottrinale angloamericana
Creators: name: Izzo, Umberto
name: Ferrari, Matteo
name: Anadotti, Elena
name: Di Giovanni, Silvia
name: Frezza, Anna Carolina
name: Hossu, Lorena Patricia
name: Marconato, Elena
name: Noschese, Angela
name: Pendenza, Alice
name: Pepe, Francesco
name: Pierobon, Valeria
name: Poli, Elisa
name: Purita, Claudia
name: Raffa, Djamila
name: Rotondi, Sergio Andrea
name: Santolin, Gaia
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Trento. Facolt� di Giurisprudenza
Year: 2021

description: This publication collects the outcomes of a didactic exercise proposed to a group of students attending the course of Comparative Food Law held by Umberto Izzo (Associate professor of Private law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento) and Matteo Ferrari (Assistant Professor of Agrifood Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento) in the spring term of the academic year 2020/21. Students were assigned with the task of studying and presenting to the class a selected group of works of scholarship authored by anglo-american academic authors dealing with several emerging issues in food law. The resulting ppt presentations are thus collected in this publication. They deal with several topics: the need to adapt the regulation of biotechnologies in order to pursue the green revolution and the need to guarantee the world food supply; the need to enhance food labeling as a tool capable of empowering consumers to modify the agri-food industry via their buying choices; the need to review the standards that in US law qualify food ingredients to be included in the regulatory definition of "Generally Recognized As Safe", so to be put on the market; the need to implement legislative changes to promote sustainable food supply chains; the Mexican resistance to the spread of GMO crops managed by US multinationals; the advent of foods containing the active ingredient of cannabis, against the backdrop of the legalization of these substances in some US states, and the new problems that these foods pose; the risk control policies implemented by the United States to prevent the risk of consumption of fish contaminated by radiation following the Fukushima disaster; the need to harmonize the standards applied to organic farming in the US and the EU; the unprecedented possibility, ignited by technological innovation, of subjecting aromas and flavors used by the food industry to copyright; the need to change the regulation of pesticide residues; the litigation following by toxic exposure to glyphosate, marketed by Monsanto with the "round up" label, and the possibility of using the scientific achievements emerged in that litigation as a basis for regulation; the ongoing attempt to obtain that glyphosate is outlawed in US and European law; the possibility of using food labeling to encourage the reduction of meat consumption; the heated disputes arisen in the United States about the regulatory definition of meat, following the marketing of foods that evoke meat without being of animal origin; the role that intellectual property could play in support of the nascent industry of meat produced through in vitro cell replication mechanisms, which is looked upon favorably as an alternative to meat of animal origin, as to contrast global warming, also induced by livestock breeding.