Scientists and the regulation of risk : standardising control / David Demortain.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-253) and index.

Risk regulation: from controversies to common concepts -- Communities, networks and colleges: expert collectives in transnational regulation -- From qualifying products to imputing adverse events: a short history of risk regulation -- Drawing lessons: medical professionals and the introduction of pharmacovigilance planning -- Modelling regulation: HACCP and the ambitions of the food microbiology elite -- The value of abstraction: food safety scientists and the invention of post-market monitoring -- Exploring invisible colleges: sociology of the standardising scientist -- Scientists, standardisation and regulatory change: the emergent action of invisible colleges -- Appendix 1. ReSearch strategy and methodology.