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Bureaucracy, Bacteria, And Blame: Risk Based Inspection Systems And The Modern Food Saftey Scheme, Educating Americans To Just Do It Well Done, Heather N. Sutton
Bureaucracy, Bacteria, And Blame: Risk Based Inspection Systems And The Modern Food Saftey Scheme, Educating Americans To Just Do It Well Done, Heather N. Sutton
Heather N. Sutton
This comment focuses on the recent implementation of the risk based inspection system (RBIS) by the United States Department of Agriculture. A discussion of food safety evolution and consideration of the impact of the system, pre-RBIS and post-RBIS, concludes that consumer savviness is not adequately taken into account and that education as to food safety and risk is the most efficient and necessary component to government efforts to address consumer health as related to food consumption.
Water Is Security, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Water Is Security, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Reasonable and equitable water resource decision-making is at the core of good governance around the world. Sustained water collaboration is an antidote to foreign relations disintegration. Lack of water quality and quantity policies can lead to water insecurity for everyone, yet bureaucratic obstacles such as inertia and corruption must be averted in altering water governance schemes. There are multiple ways to lower transaction costs and strive for optimal water use. Several ingredients of good water governance include: (1) broad participation through the entire decision-making process; (2) transparent flow of information; (3) equitable opportunities to increase well-being; (4) accountability from governments, …
Water Leadership And The Rights Of Youth To Sustainable Development, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Water Leadership And The Rights Of Youth To Sustainable Development, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Reasonable and equitable use of water can help achieve local, regional, and international peace and security. This Article addresses water security around the world. Lack of safe drinking water and sanitation kills roughly 4500 children a day according to the World Health Organization. Youth have an important role to play as stakeholders with the longest range interests in policy outcomes. We have a shared responsibility to ensure water access and water quality. This Article concludes that clean technology transfer in particular and international cooperation generally can facilitate informed decisions upon which egalitarian agreements can establish sustainable watershed management.