MANAGING FOOD SAFETY

Managing food safety

Managing Food Safety

Communication about food safety is complex. This is, in part, because food safety covers a range of different issues, including microbial contamination of food (for example, in the domestic environment), optimization of nutrition and consumer food choices, and development of effective communication about the risks and benefits of food processing technologies such as genetic modification of food crops and (more recently) nanotech-neology used in food production. In addition, food choice is important for all consumers. On the one hand, food choices are representative of that class of behaviors that are frequently repeated by consumers and can be described as habitual. Against this, consumers may also be suspicious of new foods that are outside of their experience or produced using novel technologies, a phenomenon known as food xenophobia (Satin, 2008).

Communication about food safety may involve communication about both risks and benefits associated with consumption of a specific food product, and the impacts of these risks and benefits may also vary across the population and be associated with different degrees of uncertainty. Finally, people need to eat to live, and so making safe food choices also becomes an issue of survival and can potentially influence an individual's quality of life.

Evolution of Food Safety System

Point risk investigation critical command issue (HACCP) is one of the major devices and means to double-check food security. The HACCP scheme has long annals of development and evolution. The present world food security scheme, under the auspices of the United Nations, started in 1945 with the establishment of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, held in 1947, comprises provisions for the implementation of assesses essential to defend human, animal or vegetation life or health. Some of its provisions are that the assessment taken by each homeland should not distinguish unjustifiably between nations, where similar situation prevails, and should not proceed as disguised limits on worldwide trade. After that, the HACCP scheme has taken a long evolutionary route, until in 1997, come to the "Document on a Code of HACCP values and application."

While the values of HACCP (in force until 1972) was very straightforward and comprised of three values (the culmination of risk investigation, recognising critical command points, and set up command procedures), a up to date HACCP scheme is founded on seven values (the culmination of risk investigation, recognising critical command points , setting up critical restricts, the establishment of supervising methods, the establishment of corrective activity, the creation of verification methods, as well as setting up methods for records). America, Japan and some European Union are mostly the use of up to date HACCP scheme for food security. They furthermore need their exporters of food in evolving nations to apply the HACCP system. The present scheme of food security, although, proceeds after the authority of HACCP (Andrew, 2006).

Privatization of State Food Security

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