- Title
- Functional foods and public health nutrition policy
- Creator
- Lawrence, Mark; Germov, John
- Relation
- A Sociology of Food & Nutrition: The Social Appetite p. 147-175
- Relation
- http://www.oup.com.au/titles/higher_ed/social_science/sociology/9780195551501
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- This chapter reviews the controversies associated with the research and development of functional foods and their promotion using health claims, assesses the assumptions that have underpinned their emergence and explores options for their future. The functional food agenda provides a valuable case study of public policy relating to food and health. During a period of food scares and rising rates of obesity and diabetes in developed countries, there is debate over whether government food policy should preferentially seek solutions by protecting social and environmental aspects of the food and nutrition system or by promoting food innovation and marketing. The debate is taking place within a political climate characterised by the globalisation of the food trade, a reduction in public sector health spending, and market deregulation. From a sociological perspective, the functional foods agenda reflects a coalescence of the interests of food manufacturers, medical scientists and government authorities who seek to exert control over the composition and marketing of food.
- Description
- 3rd ed.
- Subject
- public health policy; functional foods; food marketing; social aspects of food
- Identifier
- uon:5863
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/44740
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780195551501
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