Zurek (law, Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies) offers a critical legal perspective on the current direction of European Union food safety regulation by analyzing three regulatory mechanisms: mutual recognition, scientific risk regulation, and standardization. Placing these within the evolution of food legislation in the Union, she argues that the current framework fails to face new challenges, such as the globalization of world trade and the last two enlargements. She takes Poland as an example to look at the three approaches to the Europeanization of risk regulation, ways and means of regulating food safety in Europe, and the enlargement of the European market and its implications. Her final chapter asks whether reform is possible, and whether Europe is ready for it. Martinus Nijhoff is an imprint of Brill. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)