MacMaoláin - Food law: European, domestic and international frameworks

FOOD LAW

This book provides a broad conspectus on the application of EU and international regulation of the food sector on English law. It is aimed at practitioners and students of this vital and emerging branch of law, which has become an important part of current political and legal debate. It is written not just for lawyers as a statement of current law, but is also aimed at all those involved or interested in the food industry who wish to familiarise themselves with how the law is applied practically in this jurisdiction.

The book commences with a short conceptual framework for the study of food law. It then provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of current English law, explaining fully the detailed processes by which both international and national law and EU decision making have impacted upon most aspects of the production, sale and consumption of food in England.

The book explains and assesses the operation of the current law by describing in detail the roles of Government, the Food Standards Agency and local enforcement authorities in the making and enforcing of laws concerning food.

The work contains full outlines of the developments in the most significant areas of food law. It concentrates specifically on topics such as food labelling and advertising, quality and compositional requirements, geographical food names, genetic modification, organic production, animal welfare and also the role of law in tackling poor health, obesity, and diet-related disease.

The book, though primarily designed as a law text, goes beyond the usual confines of such works. It sets out to explain and describe the impact of successive food crises, such as BSE and the use of horsemeat in beef products, on food safety and transparency requirements. The book considers and assesses how the existing rules on the chemical and biological safety of food impact on our law, and concludes with a review of the developing legal issues concerning the environmental impacts of current and proposed food law, in particular the relationship between food law, climate change and food security.

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CONTENTS

UNITED KINGDOM

Allan Rich Seafoods v Lincoln Magistrates Court [2009] EWHC 3391

Bapio Action Ltd and Yousaf v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Secretary of State for Health [2007] EWHC 199

Bibby-Cheshire v Golden Wonder Ltd [1972] 3 All ER 738

Birds Eye Walls Ltd v Shropshire County Council (1994) 158 JP 961

Bridge v Howard [1897] 1 QB 80

Broughton v Whittaker [1944] 2 All ER 544

Carrick District Council v Taunton Vale Meat Traders Ltd (1994) 158 JP 347

Consorzio del Prosciutto di Parma v Asda Stores Ltd and Hygrade Foods Ltd [1999] ETMR 319, CA

Davies v Winstanley (1930) 144 LT 433

Eaton v Cobb [1950] 1 All ER 1016

Factortame Ltd v Secretary of State for Transport (No 2) [1991] 1 AC 603

FAGE UK Ltd v Chobani UK Ltd [2013] EWHC 630

Farley v Higginbotham (1898) 42 Sol Jo 309

Friends of the Earth v Food Standards Agency [2007] EWCH 558

Harrison v Richards (1881) 45 JP 552

Horder v Scott (1880) 5 QBD 552

Hotchin v Hindmarsh [1891] 2 KB 181

Innocent Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majestys Revenue and Customs [2010] UKFTT 516

Kalron Foods Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majestys Revenue and Customs [2007] EWHC 695

Lee v Bent, Barlow and Noblett [1901] 2 KB 290

National Association of Health Stores v Department of Health [2005] EWCA Civ 154

Newby v Sims [1984] 1 QB 478

R v Kempson (1893) 28 L Jo 477

R v Leicester Union [1899] 2 QB 632

R v Senior [1899] 1 QB 283, CA

R v Treeve (1796) 2 East PC 821

Robinson v Newman (1917) 81 JP 187

Shillito v Thompson (1875) 1 QBD 12

Small v Bickley (1875) 32 LT 726

Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass [1971] 2 All ER 127

Thoburn and others v Sunderland City Council and others [2003] QB 151

Torfaen Borough Council v Douglas Willis Ltd [2012] EWHC 296

Tyler v Dairy Supply Co Ltd (1908) 72 JP 132

United Biscuits (LON/91/0160)

Walker Snack Foods Ltd v Coventry City Council [1998] 3 All ER 163

IRELAND

DPP v Begley [2013] IECCA 32

EUROPEAN UNION

25/1962, Plaumann & Co v Commission [1963] ECR 95

7/1968, Commission v Italy [1968] ECR 423

24/1968, Commission v Italy [1969] ECR 193

2 & 3/1969, Sociaal Fonds voor de Diamantarbeiders v SA Ch Brachfeld & Sons [1969] ECR 211

8/1974, Procureur du Roi v Benot and Gustave Dassonville [1974] ECR 837

33/1974, Van Binsbergen v Bestuur Van de Bedrijfsvereniging voor de Metaalnijverheid [1974] ECR 1299

45/1975, Rewe-Zentrale des lebensmittel-Grosshandels GmbH v Hauptzollamt Landau/Pfalz [1976] ECR 181

87/1975, Conceria Daniele Bresciani v Amministrazione Italiana delle Finanze [1976] ECR 129

46/1976, Bauhuis v Netherlands [1977] ECR 5

120/1978, Rewe-Zentral AG v Bundesmonopolverwaltung fr Branntwein [1979] ECR 649

168/1978, Commission v France [1980] ECR 347

170/1978, Commission v UK [1980] ECR 417

55/1979, Commission v Ireland [1980] ECR 481

88/1979, Criminal proceedings against Siegfried Grunert [1980] ECR 1827

138/1979, Roquette Frres v Council [1980] ECR 3333

788/1979, Criminal proceedings against Gilli and Andres [1980] ECR 2071

812/1979, Attorney General v Burgoa [1980] ECR 2787

27/1980, Criminal proceedings against Anton Adriaan Fietje [1980] ECR 3839