2021 Volume 19 Pages 109-124
Takako Nakajima examined the risk communication on BSE held in 2004 by the Food Safety Commission, pointed out that there was dis-communication between administrative agencies and experts, and consumers, and discussed factors therein. This study has two purposes. The first is to examine the BSE risk communication in 2004 and 2013, so as to point out another factor of dis-communication (Chapters 3-4). The relevant factor is the difference in expectations on or interpretations of risk communication that exists between the Commission and citizen-consumers (Chapter 3). This difference is related to the absence of two concepts that are not explicit in the Japanese framework. They are the concern assessment included in the IRGC’s risk governance framework and the other legitimate factors (OLFs) by the Codex (Chapter 4).
When consumer groups face risk communication issues in such a situation, they may show selfrestraint in the form of keeping silent. The second purpose is to show this state of silence using the concept of “scienceplanation” (Chapter 5). Finally, as a breakthrough, the possibility of creating a story from the bottom-up is discussed (Chapter 6).