Second, GLOBALG.A.P.’s capacity for harmonization and rationalization
is limited by variability in state-based legislative requirements
applicable to food production, processing and retail.
Private sector standards are necessarily brought into interaction
with other regulatory tools and potentially vary, as a consequence,
in their operational content, effectiveness and impacts across jurisdictions.
It is this relationship between ostensibly universal
private-sector standards and the regulatory context of the nationstate
with which the next section of this paper is particularly
concerned.