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Published as Chapter 12 in Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy, Cary Coglianese, Adam M. Finkel & David Zaring, eds.
This paper examines the role of ‘private’ (non-governmental) regulatory programs in assuring the safety of imported products. Focusing particularly on food safety it argues that private regulatory institutions have great capacity to control safety hazards and to implement dynamic systems for detecting and correcting nascent risks. However, to establish the accountability and legitimacy relationships necessary for long-term effectiveness, private safety regulatory programs must devise new ways of incorporating and responding to the interests of developing country producers, laborers, consumers, and governments. Developed country regulators can aid this process by ‘orchestrating’ transnational governance processes to ensure that private regulatory programs collect and share information, maximize transparency and participation in their standard setting procedures, and experience incentives to deploy maximal care in implementation, monitoring, and enforcement.
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Publication Date
2009
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
City
Philadelphia
ISBN
9780812242225
First Page
233
Keywords
corporate social responsibility, consumer protection, food safety, globalization, import regulation, import safety, international trade, market chain governance, new governance, private regulation, private standard setting, product safety, regulatory gove
Disciplines
Consumer Protection Law | International Trade Law | Law
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Errol E. Meidinger, Private Import Safety Regulation and Transnational New Governance in Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy 233 (Cary Coglianese, Adam M. Finkel & David Zaring, eds., University of Pennsylvania Press 2009)