Josling (emeritus Food Research Institute, Stanford Institute for International Studies), Donna Roberts, an economist with the US Department of Agriculture, and David Orden (International Food Policy Research Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U.) contend that international institutions have a broad role to play in improving the performance of regulatory authorities in providing safe food and preventing the spread of animal and plant disease, and that governments should be relegated to preventing misleading claims. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
