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A Continuing Plague: Faceless Transactions And The Coincident Rise Of Food Adulteration And Legal Regulation Of Quality, Denis Stearns
A Continuing Plague: Faceless Transactions And The Coincident Rise Of Food Adulteration And Legal Regulation Of Quality, Denis Stearns
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Over two decades ago, the Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak, in which five victims died, and hundreds more were seriously injured, dramatically changed the way the world looked at food and food safety. Although deemed “trivial” by tort scholars, who nonetheless used legal doctrines first developed in food cases to justify the extension of strict liability to all products, this article uses the Jack in the Box outbreak as a point of departure for exploring not only the relationship between food, being, and knowledge, but to posit that commerce in food, and the inevitability of profit-motivated food adulteration, …
Prosser’S Bait-And-Switch: How Food Safety Was Sacrificed In The Battle For Tort’S Empire, Denis Stearns
Prosser’S Bait-And-Switch: How Food Safety Was Sacrificed In The Battle For Tort’S Empire, Denis Stearns
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In this article, Professor Stearns discusses the legal history of the development of the rules that govern liability for selling unsafe food.