Abstract
This is the first paper of a series of case studies on consumer issues which raised nation-wide consumer oppositions to the government in Japan. It treats the ban of ”AF-2”, which was
accepted as a disinfectant for foods in 1965 and banned in 1974.
Based on the analysis of the decision-making process toward the ban, I showed that consumer organizations played a decisive role for the ban but they could not become a permanent part of the decision-making of consumer policy.
