Food Law in the United States

This is the first comprehensive legal treatise on US food law for lawyers, judges, students, and consumer advocates.

Michael T. Roberts (Author)

9781107117600, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 January 2016

486 pages, 7 b/w illus. 3 tables
25.4 x 17.8 x 2.7 cm, 1.02 kg

'Written with clarity and precision (and a user-friendliness exemplified by helpful features such as a detailed table of abbreviations), Roberts' opus represents an admirable effort to impose intellectual discipline on a field marked by unruly growth and yet to emerge from a formative stage.' Joseph A. Page, Food and Drug Law Journal

As the modern food system continues to transform food - its composition, taste, availability, value, and appearance - consumers are increasingly confronted by legal and regulatory issues that affect us all on a daily basis. In Food Law in the United States, Michael T. Roberts addresses these issues in a comprehensive, systematic manner that lays out the national legal framework for the regulation of food and the legal tools that fill gaps in this framework, including litigation, state law, and private standards. Covering a broad expanse of topics including commerce, food safety, marketing, nutrition, and emerging food-systems issues such as local food, sustainability, security, urban agriculture, and equity, this book is an essential reference for lawyers, students, non-law professionals, and consumer advocates who must understand food law to advance their respective interests.

1. Introduction
2. Regulation of food commerce
3. Regulation of food safety
4. Regulation of food marketing
5. Regulation of nutrition
6. Regulation of food systems.

Subject Areas: Agricultural law [LNKF], Law & society [LAQ]