Brigit Ramsingh
School of Sport and Wellbeing
University of Central Lancashire
United Kingdom
Biography
Brigit Ramsingh is an historian who has researched the development of international food safety standards, with particular focus on the UN's Codex alimentarius (the "Food Code"). She has worked in areas of food policy and food legislation at Health Canada's Food Directorate as well as on the development of a framework for microbial food safety policy research in Canada.
Research Interest
Food Safety.
Publications
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Ramsingh B, "Cracking the Codex: The Establishment of Food Safety Standards and the Codex Alimentarius Commission. 1963-1985" In: M. Bianca Seaton and Sara Allin (Eds.) MCIS Briefings: The Comparative Program on Health and Society Lupina Foundation Working Papers Series 2007-2009. Published 2010.
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Ramsingh, B. 2014. The emergence of international food safety standards and guidelines: understanding the current landscape through a historical approach. Perspectives in Public Health. Volume 134 (4), pp 206-215.
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Ramsingh, B. and C.A. Wallace. “Going beyond sights, smells and tastes: shared responsibility for food safety at farmers’ markets in the Northwest of England.†Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery Proceedings (Forthcoming 2015).
