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The Contested Governance of European Food Safety

2005· article· en· W1879893457 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Christopher Ansell, Dávid Vogel

Bibliographic record

VenueeScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicGlobal trade, sustainability, and social impact
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFood safetyCorporate governancePolitical scienceSpring (device)Environmental ethicsPublic administrationEconomic historyManagementHistoryEngineeringEconomicsFood sciencePhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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It is now a decade and half since the UK's Conservative Minister of Agriculture, John Gummer, ceremoniously fed his four-year old daughter Cordelia a hamburger to demonstrate the safety of British Beef.Since then 137 British citizens have died from a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), presumably from eating beef infected with bovine spongiform encepholapathy (BSE)-popularly known as "mad cow disease." 2The event has become emblematic of a public policy public relations fiasco.More importantly, it signifies the kinds of dilemmas in the relations between science and regulation, market promotion and consumer protection, public authority and public opinion that riddle contemporary governance.A few years later, an equally provocative symbolic action occurred across the Channel.In the town of Millau in southwest France, an emerging farm and antiglobalization movement, led by a sheep farmer named Jose Bov, used tractors to destroy a McDonalds then under construction.The action of Confdration paysanne was prompted by the imposition of American import duties on French foods like roquefort cheese, mustard, truffles, and foie gras in retaliation for a European Union ban on American hormone-treated beef.Again, the action symbolized the political and social tensions surrounding the public regulation of food.Banned by the European Union (EU)as a potential health risk, the U.S. and Canada claimed that the EU ban on hormonetreated was merely disguised trade protectionism.Although the World Trade Organization (WTO) disagreed that the ban was protectionist, it ruled the ban was not finally resolved" (Schn and Rein 1994, 4).They argue that "intractable policy controversies" require special attention because they cannot be resolved by allowing politics-as-usual to take its course. 8Organizational errors can often be rationalized as "operator errors" or minimized as "one-off" events.See, for instance, Sagan (1993). 9See the discussion on input-and output-legitimacy by Skogstad (2003).10 See the discussion by Hellstrm and Jacob (2001, 95-7) on the failure of risk communication in the BSE case.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.868
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.006
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.207
Teacher spread0.193 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2005
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