Accountability and Legitimacy, the Governance of Food Safety Policy in the EU.

该项目试图总结和分析欧盟和日本在食品安全政策方面的经验，并解决与“问责制和合法性”相关的更广泛的问题。一个很好的例子是疯牛病危机，这场危机蔓延得特别广泛，对经合组织国家产生了更严重的影响，这些国家在食品安全方面治理不善。如何确保问责过程中的问责、责任和合法性，以及它将如何影响欧盟和日本的食品安全治理？合法性被广泛接受为需要一些多边授权，最好是得到这些国际机构的授权。包括国际和国家两级的程序和政策在内的混合问责制度已经开始形成。为了在涵盖“从农场到餐桌”的整个食品产品链的国际和国内公共政策过程中保障人类健康和加强对消费者的保护，归根结底，必须在食品安全政策领域加强问责制和可追溯性，尽管将欧洲模式直接转化为日本或世界其他地区的模式是不可能也不可取的。但我们当然可以从欧洲吸取教训，我们应该强调，这对于任何适当的食品安全政策治理都是不可或缺的。

This project is an attempt to summarize and analyze the EU's and Japan's experiences in food safety policy and to address broader issues that are concerned with "accountability and legitimacy". One good example of this was the BSE crisis which was particularly wide spread and had a more serious impact in OECD countries which had "bad governance" of food safety.How would the accountability, responsibility and legitimacy in the accountability process be guaranteed and how would it affect the governance of food safety in the EU and Japan? Legitimacy is widely accepted as requiring some multilateral authorization, preferably from these international institutions. A mixed system of accountability has begun to develop, including procedures and policies at both international and national levels. In order to safeguard human health and enhance consumer protection in the international and domestic public policy process covering the entire food product chain "from farm to table" accountability and traceability must be strengthened in food safety policy areas In conclusion, although it is not possible nor is it advisable to translate the European model directly into a model for Japan or other parts of the world. But there are certainly lessons to learn from Europe, we should emphasize that it is indispensable to any proper governance of food safety policy.