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This paper sets out to understand the food producer-consumer conflicts, how they arise, & their implications for food safety, & to provide some means of evaluating the proposals for the Food Standards Agency (FSA). It does this by examining the current food safety regulatory regime as it relates to e. coli 0157, one of the problems that gave rise to the FSA & an exemplar of the problems of meat safety, & places it in its wider economic context. Results show that financial pressures on the food industry were such that food hygiene was largely dependent on external regulation & enforcement. But the deficiencies in conception, design, & implementation of the Food Safety Act, which was fundamentally deregulatory & privileged producer interests, permitted the food safety problems to grow. The case, by illustrating how the interests of big business predominate in the formulation of public policy at the expense of the public, also reveals how the class nature of the state affects public policy & social relations. Without addressing these issues, the problems they give rise to will remain. While the case is based on experiences in GB, the problem of food safety & the issues raised have an international significance. 9 Tables, 53 References. Adapted from the source document.

"Celebrating the work of Keith McLachlan, a well-known and much-admired geographer of the Middle East and North Africa, this book combines three interrelated topics that define the region. The Middle East has been integral to the growth of the global oil industry, an aspect of its evolution since 1908 which has had profound geopolitical implications as well. The territory was also the arena for the last European experiment in colonialism, a development that has left its legacy even today. And, historically, it has been the location of the great hydraulic civilisations of Egypt and Mesopotamia, yet is still dependent on the flow of its two major river systems - the Nile and the Tigris-Euphrates - in an era of impending climate crisis. These themes form the essence of themes that are discussed in the chapters that follow. Keith McLachlan played a significant role in our understanding of these themes and of their effects in the contemporary world, as the comments of those who worked with him and have contributed towards this book reveal. Examining agriculture, oil and state construction, this volume offers an insight into how the contemporary Middle East was constructed after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. It is a key resource for scholars and students interested in geopolitics and the geography of the Middle East"--

Transcaucasian boundaries"" provides the first insights into the geopolitical dynamics in this ethnically diverse and turbulent region of the former Soviet Union. The interplay between the former controlling powers of Iran, Turkey and Russia is examined, and the conflicts in Nagorno-Karabagh, Ossetia and Abkhazia are subject to expert analysis. The roles of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia are considered in detail, their relative weakness having held back the transition towards democratic free-market entities of pluralist composition. Questions of minority rights, territorial settlement and the