5月27-28日，2017年国际美食美酒图书奖颁奖典礼在山东烟台举行。国际法学院Francis Snyder教授的著作Food Safety Law in China: Making Transnational Law荣获“最佳美食美酒法律图书”，以肯定该书的普遍适用性和跨领域的社会贡献作用。

  国际美食美酒图书奖由Edouard Cointreau先生设立于1995年，被誉为“美食美酒图书领域的奥斯卡奖”。该颁奖典礼每年从全球评选出最优秀的饮食类图书进行嘉奖。据悉，参加本届国际美食美酒图书奖的图书共有2000多本，囊括200多个国家和地区。

  Snyder教授Food Safety Law in China: Making Transnational Law一书追溯了2008年“三聚氰胺奶粉事件”以来的中国食品安全法和政策的发展。他举证了在这段期间里，中国的食品安全标准完善进程很大程度受到跨境因素及中国社会机构的影响。中国在完善食品安全法规与政策的道路上面临诸多挑战，但Snyder教授在该书中也提供了许多可行的解决方案。最后，Snyder教授预言中国将会开辟一条创新的调整路径，这条路径会吸取其他国家的经验教训，也会被其他国家所借鉴。

  Snyder教授表示，自己的作品能够获得此项殊荣，离不开北京大学国际法学院和北京大学深圳研究生院给予的鼓励和支持，喜悦之情溢于言表。

Professor Snyder’s Book on Food Safety Law in China Earns Recognition at World Gourmand Awards

C.V. Starr Professor of Law Francis Snyder’s groundbreaking book, Food Safety Law in China: Making Transnational Law, earned recognition at the 2017 Gourmand International Cookbook Awards, May 27-28 in Yantai, Shandong Province, China.  The book was recognized as “Best in the World” in the “Best Wine and Food Law Book” and “Best Food Safety Institutions Book” categories.

The Gourmand International Cookbook Awards is one of the most prestigious awards competitions in the entire culinary world.  It was founded in 1995 by Edouard Cointreau.  Each year, the Gourmand Awards looks across the globe and honors the very best food and wine related books, including digital and print, as well as television programs.  This year, books from over 200 countries competed for top honors in the competition.

Food Safety Law in China: Making Transnational Law traces the development of China food safety law and policy from the 2008 melamine infant formula crisis to today.  Professor Snyder demonstrates that advances in China’s food safety standards during this period were influenced heavily by cross-border factors, as well as by institutions deeply embedded in Chinese society.  Substantial challenges remain for China’s approach to food safety law and policy, but Professor Snyder offers numerous proposals for possible solutions.  Ultimately, Professor Snyder predicts that China will embark on a regulatory path that both incorporates lessons learned from other countries and provides new strategies from which the rest of the world will learn.

On receiving the award, Professor Snyder thanked Peking University School of Transnational Law and Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School for their encouragement and support.  Given the culinary distinction of the award, he also joked, “I was so happy I almost ate my book!”

The Gourmand Awards recognition of Professor Snyder’s book is a testament to the universality of his work and its important contributions to society across multiple dimensions.