Overview: Ten cases on health risk management are presented.History of asbestos regulation is explored for six countries, Japan, UK, France, US, Korea and Malaysia, and that of BSE issue for four countries, Jap.This book examines the policy and politics of two health risks, which have recently become prominent social issues in many countries. One is the issue of asbestos as an environmental risk to humans, and another is that of bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE), or mad cow disease as an animal disease, and of its variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) as a human food risk. Employing a set
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