A One Health Approach to Food Safety and the Right to Health in a Global Governance

The global regulation of food safety remains remarkably limited, despite growing recognition of their transboundary implications. This article examines how a cosmopolitan approach to global governance can strengthen the protection of the right to health by integrating the One Health paradigm into food safety regulation. It argues that food safety should not be treated as a merely technical issue, but as a constitutional and human rights concern within a globally interdependent context. Through the analysis of selected WTO disputes, the article illustrates how tensions between trade obligations and human rights protections reveal deeper normative and institutional gaps in global food governance.