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15 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 1 (2013-2014)

handle is hein.journals/cstlr15 and id is 1 raw text is: FOOD SAFETY THE COLUMBIA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW VOL. XV STLR.ORG FALL 2013 ARTICLE SCIENTIFICATION OF POLITICS OR POLITICIZATION OF SCIENCE: REASSESSING THE LIMITS OF INTERNATIONAL FOOD SAFETY LAWMAKING Ching-Fu Lin The proliferating food safety regulatoy initiatives at domestic, international, and transnational levels by various actors with different perspectives have raised concerns regarding their important public health, international trade, and other implications. Standing as the hub of international food safety lawmaking, the Codex faces serious criticisms regarding its scientific soundness, legitimacy, transparency, and accountability. This Article explores the limits of the Codex lawmaking structure and processes by examining whether its institutional design is adequate for producing good goverance. Food safety is an area of international law where political and cultural fragmentation collides with deep market integration and trade liberalization. Through a thorough analysis of the recent dispute over the safety of ractopamine, a growth-promoting drug administered to livestock, in the context of multilateral cooperation failure and the debates between technocratic and democratic models of legitimacy, this Article emphasizes the forgotten role of procedural legitimacy t This article may be cited as http://www.stlr.org/cite.cgi?volume=15& article=1. This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. * Researcher, Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy. SJ.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School. LL.M., Harvard Law School, 2010. LL.B. & B.S., National Taiwan University, 2007. The author is indebted to Professors Alberto Alemanno, William Alford, Chang-fa Lo, Tsai-yu Lin, and Francis Snyder, as well as Simone Gabbi, Adam Jaffee, Hye Sung Kim, and Ting Sun for their very helpful guidance and insightful comments during the course of research. The author can be reached at clin@sjd.law.harvard.edu. 2013] 1

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