The Politics of Food

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/gfc.2009.9.1.117

:Trust in Food: A Comparative and Institutional Analysis

A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. Steven Shapin

Human reliability and the impact of control function allocation in the design of dynamic positioning systems

Reliability assessment of multi-megawatt capacity offshore dynamic positioning systems

From Eureka to K-Pos: Dynamic Positioning as a Highly Successful and Important Marine Control Technology

The article deals with a local incident that took place in Norway in 1987. Then doctors and hospitals were contacted by parents with sick children. Samples taken from the children showed that they were infected by salmonella. Since these bacteria are rare in Norway, and because they can be fatal, the National Food Agency and the City Veterinarian immediately took action and started tracking the source of the contamination. One week later, the agencies reported that the bacteria had been detected in chocolate, produced by the local confectioner company. The incident, a potential threat to public health as well as the company's reputation and business, initiated a series of measures that had as its final goal to restore public trust. The article examines what happened and how various actors, institutions and the company worked to restore trust in the suspicious products. The main aim of the article is to show whether and how a broken trust regime was rebuilt.

Sweet danger – negotiating trust in the Norwegian chocolate industry 1930–1990

The jewel in the crown : kongsberg dynamic positioning systems 1975-2015

Om mat og menn

This paper presents the initial activities in servo engineering in Norway originating in the early 1950s based on contacts at the Massachusets Institute of Technology. The activities were initiated by a small group of servo enthusiasts who, through the Feedback Control Committee in the research council, managed to coordinate national activities and establish strong research groups in Trondheim, Bergen and Oslo. After the initial phase of establishing the research groups, there was a continuous strong focus on connections with industry and industrial applications. In the mid-1960s the committee was strengthened and became the Automation and Data Processing Committee. The initial group of automation pioneers have left a lasting impact on the academic and industrial elds of servo engineering and automation in Norway.

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Stig Kvaal

Papers

From Eureka to K-Pos: Dynamic Positioning as a Highly Successful and Important Marine Control Technology

Sweet danger – negotiating trust in the Norwegian chocolate industry 1930–1990

The jewel in the crown : kongsberg dynamic positioning systems 1975-2015

Om mat og menn

Hooked on a New Technology: The Automation Pioneers in Post-War Norway