The event brings together academics, investigative journalists, legal practitioners, public-health researchers, civil-society representatives, and experts with direct experience of the food industry to examine how law, corporate conduct, market structures, and institutional practices shape the production, detection, and governance of food-related harm. The roundtable approaches the food industry as a field in which substantially different forms of harm coexist. Some conduct is already recognized as illegal but may remain difficult to detect, investigate, or attribute within complex organizations and global supply chains. Other practices may remain lawful while raising significant questions concerning cumulative public-health effects, scientific uncertainty, consumer autonomy, transparency, corporate influence, and the adequacy of existing regulatory responses. The event therefore moves beyond a simple distinction between lawful and unlawful conduct to examine the different mechanisms through which harmful practices may escape, resist, or receive inadequate forms of accountability.

*Yasmine Motarjemi holds an MSc degree in Food Science and Technology from the University of Languedoc, Montpellier, France (1978) and a Doctoral degree in Food Engineering from the University of Lund, Sweden (1988). After her academic career, in 1990 she joined the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva as a Senior Scientist. From 2000 to 2011, she held the position of Assistant Vice President in Nestlé and worked as the Corporate Food Safety Manager.