Food safety: a comparison between United States and the EU models in the WTO

The relationship between the American Food Safety model and the European model and, in general, between North American and European food law within the context of international trade takes on problematical aspects in the role played by science. Food technologies integrate totally with regulations, which in itself is a technical choice and cannot otherwise be interpreted except for recourse to category, concepts and subject matter of scientific culture. The same authority cannot but have a technical ‘voice' when it has to subsume the fact into a regulation. What is certain is that food is experiencing today what has already happened with biodiversity and water, when we had not yet realized their importance as resources to be protected quantitatively and qualitatively. The same path could be proposed for food, which clearly could not in itself become the common heritage of all, but the right to be fed in a healthy way, yes, this could be protected, indeed it should be preserved by States without any kind of conditioning by private individuals.