Erik Millstone
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 757533 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Erik Millstone |
| PRENOMES | Erik |
| SOBRENOME | Millstone |
| ASSINATURA | MILLSTONE E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9034-0567 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
UK Food standards agency proposals for re-structuring how it regulates food-borne risks
Food Brexit and Chlorinated Chicken
This paper situates food safety concerns raised in the Brexit debate since the referendum and suggests that, although the issue of chlorinated chicken entered public discourse, it represents wider concerns about food safety standards. Food safety has had high resonance in the UK since the 1980s, but Brexit shows how it connects to wider concerns also raised about Brexit, such as impacts on healthcare, the effects of austerity on food poverty, the…
Experts against precaution
The process of preparing and enacting a biosafety law in Iran lasted more than a decade. This paper examines the process of biosafety policy-making in Iran in relation to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) and to domestic Iranian factors. While some scholars argued that the CPB would be influential in developing countries, our findings indicate that it was not particularly important in Iranian biosafety legislation. This paper outlines the…
The BSSRS Agricapital Group
Although the name ‘Agricapital’ may seem strange, it was meant to convey what happens in a capitalist society regarding the actions of capital around food and farming. Our group came together to tr
Taste and Power
The concepts and methods used by regulatory agencies worldwide to assess the safety of flavouring additives were designed by and for the flavouring industry. They embody and embed, in routine regulatory practice, the industry's commercial interests in minimising regulatory costs and the risk that the market for its products might be restricted. First sketched out by US flavouring company scientists in the early 1960s, this approach required almos…
Developing national obesity policy in middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of overweight and obesity is a rapidly growing threat to public health in both Morocco and Tunisia, where it is reaching similar proportions to high-income countries. Despite this, a national strategy for obesity does not exist in either country. The aim of this study was to explore the views of key stakeholders towards a range of policies to prevent obesity, and thus guide policy makers in their decision making on a na…
Transforming Innovation for Sustainability
Leach, M., J. Rockström, P. Raskin, I. Scoones, A. C. Stirling, A. Smith, J. Thompson, E. Millstone, A. Ely, E. Arond, C. Folke, and P. Olsson. 2012. Transforming innovation for sustainability. Ecology and Society 17(2): 11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04933-170211
Monitoring and Evaluating Agricultural Science and Technology Projects
Recently there has been a realisation that agriculture, and in particular the viability and sustainability of smallholder farming, can be a key to poverty reduction in developing countries. This article reviews approaches to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of scientific and technological innovation projects and examines how approaches to M&E can be modified or enhanced to optimise positive impacts on those intended recipients. This article conclu…
Food, Risk and Politics
The potential role of taxes and subsidies on food in the prevention of obesity in Europe
BACKGROUND: Obesity implies costs not only for the individual but also for society. The authors explore the opinions of stakeholders on the potential of taxes or subsidies, as measures for tackling obesity in Europe. METHODS: Structured interviews were conducted using Multicriteria Mapping, a computer-based, decision-support tool, with 189 interviewees drawn from 21 different stakeholder categories across nine members of the EU interviews, to app…
Policy options for obesity in Europe
Objective To explore policy options that public health specialists (PHS) consider appropriate for combating obesity in Europe, and compare their preferences with those of other stakeholders (non-PHS). Design Structured interviews using multicriteria mapping, a computer-based, decision-support tool. Setting Nine European countries. Subjects A total of 189 stakeholders. Twenty-seven interviewees were PHS and non-PHS included food, sports and health…
Mad Cow Disease — Painting Policy‐Making into a Corner
The BSE saga in the UK provides important lessons on the role of governments in risk communication and management during crises, and on the ways in which inappropriate early responses can skew the perceptions of stakeholders, exacerbate conflicts between different interest groups and constrain the government's options for effective action. A brief discussion of the emergence of BSE in the UK cattle herd, and the accompanying policy dilemmas, pref…
Can food safety policy-making be both scientifically and democratically legitimated? If so, how
Policy Councils on Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity
International experience of Policy Councils on food and nutrition has developed over recent decades but they have not received the attention that is due to them.. The 1992 International Conference on Nutrition recommended that governments create Food Policy Councils but few have been created. .There has been more experience in local and sub-national policy councils, particularly in North America. .Developing country experience of attempting to im…
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The Evolution of Food Safety Policy–making Institutions in the UK, EU and Codex Alimentarius
After the British government announced in March 1996 that a novel fatal human disease (now called variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) had emerged and was almost certainly caused by consuming BSE–contaminated food, national and international authorities have been struggling to deal with the consequences of a serious loss of public confidence in the safety of foods and in food safety policy–making institutions. One of the main ways in which governme…
Analysing biotechnology's traumas
Some of the most important factors that played a role in provoking the upheavals which overwhelmed the agri-foods biotechnology industry in Europe at the end of the 20th century are described and analysed, focusing especially on the impact of the introduction of a statutory labelling scheme that could be enforced. The implications of those upheavals for the development of biotechnology, for consumers and public policy makers, and corporate strate…
Beyond Skeptical Relativism
Constructivist analyses of risk regulation are typically agnostic about what should count as robust or reliable knowledge. Indeed, constructivists usually portray competing accounts of risk as if they were always equally contingent or engaged with different and incommensurable issues and problem definitions. This article argues that assumptions about the equal reliability of competing accounts of risk deserve to be, and sometimes can be, examined…
Food additive controls
The politics of food
Food additive regulation in the UK
Explaining technical change
A Framework for the Sociology of Knowledge
The sociology of knowledge can enrich our understanding of history, society, knowledge and belief. However, it can only achieve this if it has a sound epistemological and methodological basis. This paper, by criticizing the views of David Bloor, argues that it would be a mistake to define the sociology of knowledge as the causal explanation of belief. More positively, it attempts to describe the general form which the sociology of knowledge shoul…
Transforming Innovation for Sustainability
Leach, M., J. Rockström, P. Raskin, I. Scoones, A. C. Stirling, A. Smith, J. Thompson, E. Millstone, A. Ely, E. Arond, C. Folke, and P. Olsson. 2012. Transforming innovation for sustainability. Ecology and Society 17(2): 11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04933-170211
Explaining technical change
The Evolution of Food Safety Policy–making Institutions in the UK, EU and Codex Alimentarius
After the British government announced in March 1996 that a novel fatal human disease (now called variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) had emerged and was almost certainly caused by consuming BSE–contaminated food, national and international authorities have been struggling to deal with the consequences of a serious loss of public confidence in the safety of foods and in food safety policy–making institutions. One of the main ways in which governme…
Beyond Skeptical Relativism
Constructivist analyses of risk regulation are typically agnostic about what should count as robust or reliable knowledge. Indeed, constructivists usually portray competing accounts of risk as if they were always equally contingent or engaged with different and incommensurable issues and problem definitions. This article argues that assumptions about the equal reliability of competing accounts of risk deserve to be, and sometimes can be, examined…
Food additive controls
A Framework for the Sociology of Knowledge
The sociology of knowledge can enrich our understanding of history, society, knowledge and belief. However, it can only achieve this if it has a sound epistemological and methodological basis. This paper, by criticizing the views of David Bloor, argues that it would be a mistake to define the sociology of knowledge as the causal explanation of belief. More positively, it attempts to describe the general form which the sociology of knowledge shoul…
Mad Cow Disease — Painting Policy‐Making into a Corner
The BSE saga in the UK provides important lessons on the role of governments in risk communication and management during crises, and on the ways in which inappropriate early responses can skew the perceptions of stakeholders, exacerbate conflicts between different interest groups and constrain the government's options for effective action. A brief discussion of the emergence of BSE in the UK cattle herd, and the accompanying policy dilemmas, pref…
Can food safety policy-making be both scientifically and democratically legitimated? If so, how
Bse
Monitoring and Evaluating Agricultural Science and Technology Projects
Recently there has been a realisation that agriculture, and in particular the viability and sustainability of smallholder farming, can be a key to poverty reduction in developing countries. This article reviews approaches to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of scientific and technological innovation projects and examines how approaches to M&E can be modified or enhanced to optimise positive impacts on those intended recipients. This article conclu…
The potential role of taxes and subsidies on food in the prevention of obesity in Europe
BACKGROUND: Obesity implies costs not only for the individual but also for society. The authors explore the opinions of stakeholders on the potential of taxes or subsidies, as measures for tackling obesity in Europe. METHODS: Structured interviews were conducted using Multicriteria Mapping, a computer-based, decision-support tool, with 189 interviewees drawn from 21 different stakeholder categories across nine members of the EU interviews, to app…
Taste and Power
The concepts and methods used by regulatory agencies worldwide to assess the safety of flavouring additives were designed by and for the flavouring industry. They embody and embed, in routine regulatory practice, the industry's commercial interests in minimising regulatory costs and the risk that the market for its products might be restricted. First sketched out by US flavouring company scientists in the early 1960s, this approach required almos…
Food additive regulation in the UK
Food Brexit and Chlorinated Chicken
This paper situates food safety concerns raised in the Brexit debate since the referendum and suggests that, although the issue of chlorinated chicken entered public discourse, it represents wider concerns about food safety standards. Food safety has had high resonance in the UK since the 1980s, but Brexit shows how it connects to wider concerns also raised about Brexit, such as impacts on healthcare, the effects of austerity on food poverty, the…
The BSSRS Agricapital Group
Although the name ‘Agricapital’ may seem strange, it was meant to convey what happens in a capitalist society regarding the actions of capital around food and farming. Our group came together to tr
Developing national obesity policy in middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of overweight and obesity is a rapidly growing threat to public health in both Morocco and Tunisia, where it is reaching similar proportions to high-income countries. Despite this, a national strategy for obesity does not exist in either country. The aim of this study was to explore the views of key stakeholders towards a range of policies to prevent obesity, and thus guide policy makers in their decision making on a na…
A Framework for the Sociology of Knowledge
The sociology of knowledge can enrich our understanding of history, society, knowledge and belief. However, it can only achieve this if it has a sound epistemological and methodological basis. This paper, by criticizing the views of David Bloor, argues that it would be a mistake to define the sociology of knowledge as the causal explanation of belief. More positively, it attempts to describe the general form which the sociology of knowledge shoul…
Explaining technical change
Food additive regulation in the UK
The politics of food
Food additive controls
Analysing biotechnology's traumas
Some of the most important factors that played a role in provoking the upheavals which overwhelmed the agri-foods biotechnology industry in Europe at the end of the 20th century are described and analysed, focusing especially on the impact of the introduction of a statutory labelling scheme that could be enforced. The implications of those upheavals for the development of biotechnology, for consumers and public policy makers, and corporate strate…
Beyond Skeptical Relativism
Constructivist analyses of risk regulation are typically agnostic about what should count as robust or reliable knowledge. Indeed, constructivists usually portray competing accounts of risk as if they were always equally contingent or engaged with different and incommensurable issues and problem definitions. This article argues that assumptions about the equal reliability of competing accounts of risk deserve to be, and sometimes can be, examined…
The Evolution of Food Safety Policy–making Institutions in the UK, EU and Codex Alimentarius
After the British government announced in March 1996 that a novel fatal human disease (now called variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) had emerged and was almost certainly caused by consuming BSE–contaminated food, national and international authorities have been struggling to deal with the consequences of a serious loss of public confidence in the safety of foods and in food safety policy–making institutions. One of the main ways in which governme…
Bse
Policy Councils on Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity
International experience of Policy Councils on food and nutrition has developed over recent decades but they have not received the attention that is due to them.. The 1992 International Conference on Nutrition recommended that governments create Food Policy Councils but few have been created. .There has been more experience in local and sub-national policy councils, particularly in North America. .Developing country experience of attempting to im…
Mad Cow Disease — Painting Policy‐Making into a Corner
The BSE saga in the UK provides important lessons on the role of governments in risk communication and management during crises, and on the ways in which inappropriate early responses can skew the perceptions of stakeholders, exacerbate conflicts between different interest groups and constrain the government's options for effective action. A brief discussion of the emergence of BSE in the UK cattle herd, and the accompanying policy dilemmas, pref…
Can food safety policy-making be both scientifically and democratically legitimated? If so, how
Policy options for obesity in Europe
Objective To explore policy options that public health specialists (PHS) consider appropriate for combating obesity in Europe, and compare their preferences with those of other stakeholders (non-PHS). Design Structured interviews using multicriteria mapping, a computer-based, decision-support tool. Setting Nine European countries. Subjects A total of 189 stakeholders. Twenty-seven interviewees were PHS and non-PHS included food, sports and health…
Monitoring and Evaluating Agricultural Science and Technology Projects
Recently there has been a realisation that agriculture, and in particular the viability and sustainability of smallholder farming, can be a key to poverty reduction in developing countries. This article reviews approaches to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of scientific and technological innovation projects and examines how approaches to M&E can be modified or enhanced to optimise positive impacts on those intended recipients. This article conclu…
Food, Risk and Politics
The potential role of taxes and subsidies on food in the prevention of obesity in Europe
BACKGROUND: Obesity implies costs not only for the individual but also for society. The authors explore the opinions of stakeholders on the potential of taxes or subsidies, as measures for tackling obesity in Europe. METHODS: Structured interviews were conducted using Multicriteria Mapping, a computer-based, decision-support tool, with 189 interviewees drawn from 21 different stakeholder categories across nine members of the EU interviews, to app…
Transforming Innovation for Sustainability
Leach, M., J. Rockström, P. Raskin, I. Scoones, A. C. Stirling, A. Smith, J. Thompson, E. Millstone, A. Ely, E. Arond, C. Folke, and P. Olsson. 2012. Transforming innovation for sustainability. Ecology and Society 17(2): 11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04933-170211
Developing national obesity policy in middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of overweight and obesity is a rapidly growing threat to public health in both Morocco and Tunisia, where it is reaching similar proportions to high-income countries. Despite this, a national strategy for obesity does not exist in either country. The aim of this study was to explore the views of key stakeholders towards a range of policies to prevent obesity, and thus guide policy makers in their decision making on a na…
Taste and Power
The concepts and methods used by regulatory agencies worldwide to assess the safety of flavouring additives were designed by and for the flavouring industry. They embody and embed, in routine regulatory practice, the industry's commercial interests in minimising regulatory costs and the risk that the market for its products might be restricted. First sketched out by US flavouring company scientists in the early 1960s, this approach required almos…
Experts against precaution
The process of preparing and enacting a biosafety law in Iran lasted more than a decade. This paper examines the process of biosafety policy-making in Iran in relation to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) and to domestic Iranian factors. While some scholars argued that the CPB would be influential in developing countries, our findings indicate that it was not particularly important in Iranian biosafety legislation. This paper outlines the…
The BSSRS Agricapital Group
Although the name ‘Agricapital’ may seem strange, it was meant to convey what happens in a capitalist society regarding the actions of capital around food and farming. Our group came together to tr
Food Brexit and Chlorinated Chicken
This paper situates food safety concerns raised in the Brexit debate since the referendum and suggests that, although the issue of chlorinated chicken entered public discourse, it represents wider concerns about food safety standards. Food safety has had high resonance in the UK since the 1980s, but Brexit shows how it connects to wider concerns also raised about Brexit, such as impacts on healthcare, the effects of austerity on food poverty, the…
UK Food standards agency proposals for re-structuring how it regulates food-borne risks
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