Food safety and technology governance Recent advances in agri food technology have brought about increasing complexity and emerging challenges to food safety regulation and governance with many countries greatly divided in their regulatory approaches. As more advanced CRISPR based gene editing technologies and novel foods such as cloned animal products non traditional plants nanofood and plant based meat are rapidly being developed debates arise as to whether the existing models of governance require revision to ensure consumer safety. Of equal importance is the extensive use of pesticides additives and animal drugs which raise concerns over the methods and approaches of government approval and phasing out of potentially risk causing chemicals. Heightened public criticism of food safety and technology poses a significant challenge to governments around the world which struggle to strike a proper balance between technocracy and democracy oriented risk governance models. Drawing on expertise from the United States European Union Japan China Korea Association of South East Asian Nations Malaysia and Taiwan this book explores existing and emerging issues of food law and policy in the context of technology governance to offer an overarching framework for the interaction between food regulation and technology. It will be essential reading for academics students and practitioners with an interest in food law and policy agricultural law and policy and food safety and nutrition studies Phasing out certain antibiotics in food animals : the U.S. approach in light of precaution and cost benefit analysis Kuei Jung Ni The role of scientific evidence in European food assessments Alie De Boer Regulating gene technology in food : American approach and practice Neal D. Fortin.