This chapter explores the evolution of Atlanta’s local food truck movement, contextualizing the rise of this emerging industry within the changing local and state regulatory environment. Through a review of historical documents and a survey of social media outlets, the researchers find that food truck vendors in Atlanta, aided by third sector intermediaries, have thrived by working around, rather than within, the existing regulatory framework. Despite the ability of this new industry to cater to a specific middle and upper class market, food trucks in Atlanta have not increased entrepreneurial diversity or access to new and healthy foods for low-income neighborhoods as some advocates have argued. The Atlanta food truck case exemplifies the problems that restrictive policies can cause by demarcating public and private space in ways that privilege entrenched interests and restrict entrepreneurship and innovation.
Standardization seeks to avoid repetitive solutions of the same problem and to aid simplification, communication, economy, safety and health, consumer protection and the elimination of trade barriers. The standard as a document has much in common with the technical regulation and shares certain features with patents and legislation.Users need information about standards in order to apply them, or as a basis for new standards or because they are affected by their results. Together these groups of user represent, directly or indirectly, the whole community. Standardization takes place at national, regional and international levels. The organizational structure is complex, differing from country to country. ISO is the specialized international agency for standardization with a coordinating role.ISO has a member in each of 87 countries and liaisons with 300 other international organizations. International Standards result from the work of 163 ISO technical committees.ISONET links national and international standards information centres to make information on standards and technical regulations universally available. GATT is encouraging similar measures. International and foreign standards are readily available for reference or purchase in most countries. Many documentary and institutional aids exist for information about, or related to standards. Special standards for terminology, documentation, data processing and some others are of particular interest since they aid the processing of information.
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