Margherita Poto, “Food and nano-food within the Chinese regulatory system: no need to have overregulation,” European Journal of Law & Technology, 2011

University of Turin Law Professor Margherita Poto explores the food safety
laws in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Special Administrative
Region of Hong Kong to set the stage for discussing how their regulatory
systems may be sufficiently advanced to address the potential challenges
posed by the use of nanotechnology in the food sciences. Her article appears
in a special edition of the European Journal of Law & Technology devoted to
nanotechnology issues.

According to Poto, existing risk analysis rules, registration and traceability
requirements and premarket approval should adequately ensure the safety
of “nano-foods.” She contends, “Mainland China and Hong Kong are seriously
committed to strengthen their regulatory framework in order to protect
consumers from unsafe food and this commitment can involve the field of
nano-foods, as an integrant part of the novel foods regulation. The regulatory
framework may allow PRC, as well as Western countries, to reach astonishing
developments in the field of nano-foods as well.”