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Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health

Lecturer, Junior Researcher & Ph.D. Candidate

A passionate food lover whose tastes were honed in his native Italy, Alessandro's academic career has been shaped by his passion for food and its political, legislative and cultural implications. During his bachelor in Gastronomic Sciences, Alessandro had the opportunity to visit several countries (Canada, Cuba, Georgia, Italy and Greece) entering in contact with the modern challenges related to food production, commercialisation and consumption. After that, Alessandro decided to pursue his interest in Food Law. He completed a master's in Food Safety,Food Law & Regulatory Affairs at Wageningen University. Currently, Alessandro works as a researcher for the University of Bayreuth and is working on his Ph.D. research on the regulation of food innovations.

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Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health

Food law, food safety, food innovation regulation

Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health

Publications

2025

Alessandro Monaco: Design thinking principles in the regulation of novel foods in the European Union and Singapore : A comparison. In: European Business Law Review, (2025). - .

Tilman Reinhardt, Alessandro Monaco: How innovation-friendly is the EU Novel Food Regulation? The case of cellular agriculture. In: Future Foods, 11 (2025). - .
doi:10.1016/j.fufo.2025.100574

Alessandro Monaco: A perspective on the regulation of cultivated meat in the European Union. In: npj Science of Food, 9 (2025). - .
doi:10.1038/s41538-025-00384-0

Alexandra Molitorisová, Alessandro Monaco, Gerald Lackner, Seth Roberts, Kai Purnhagen: Regulation of Mushroom- and Mycelium-Based Products in the EU. - Cham : Springer, 2025.

Alessandro Monaco: Regulatory Barriers and Incentives for Alternative Proteins in the European Union and Australia-New Zealand. In: British Food Journal, 127 (2025). - S. 171-189.
doi:10.1108/BFJ-06-2024-0650

Alessandro Monaco: The Role of Heuristics and Biases in the Choice of Risk Triggers for Novel Foods and GMOs in the European Union. In: European Journal of Risk Regulation, 16 (2025). - S. 217-227.
doi:10.1017/err.2024.48

2024

Tilman Reinhardt, Alessandro Monaco, Kai Purnhagen: Cultivated Foie Gras flies into Europe : prepare for legal disruption. In: European Law Blog, 2024-09-05
doi:10.21428/9885764c.cff9f420

Tilman Reinhardt, Alessandro Monaco: How Innovation-Friendly is the EU Novel Food Regulation? The Case of Cellular Agriculture. - Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2024. - 29 S.
doi:10.2139/ssrn.4892706

Alessandro Monaco, Johannes Kotz, Mirna Al Masri, Anila Allmeta, Kai Purnhagen, Laura M. König: Consumers' perception of novel foods and the impact of heuristics and biases : A systematic review. In: Appetite, 196 (2024). - .
doi:10.1016/j.appet.2024.107285

2023

Alexandra Molitorisová, Alessandro Monaco: Innovating food law with mycelium : EU regulations. In: Markus Möstl, Kai Purnhagen (Hrsg.): Die Regulierung von Innovationen im Lebensmittelsektor : Produkte, Probleme, Perspektiven. - Frankfurt am Main : Fachmedien Recht und Wirtschaft, 2023.

Alessandro Monaco: Data Protection Under the Novel Food Regulation : Valuable Instrument or Barrier to Innovation? Insights from the Insect Sector. In: European Food and Feed Law Review, 18 (2023). - S. 172-178.

Kai Purnhagen, Yasmine Ambrogio, Detlef Bartsch, Dennis Eriksson, Petra Jorasch, Jens Kahrmann, Maximilian Kardung, Alexandra Molitorisová, Alessandro Monaco, Amrit Nanda, Jörg Romeis, Nils Rostoks, Katharina Unkel, Xenia Schneider: Options for Regulating New Genomic Techniques for Plants in the European Union. In: Nature Plants, 9 (2023). - S. 1958-1961.
doi:10.1038/s41477-023-01570-2