This article elaborates on public-private partnerships in food safety, what their added values are in enhancing food control systems, and provides an example how coregulatory approaches using information from voluntary third-party assurance programs can lead to improved food safety outcomes.

Even under the best of circumstances, agriculture faces myriad pressures. Exacerbated by climate change, these pressures are making agriculture a more vulnerable and challenging enterprise, impacting food production, processing, storage, and distribution. In other words, our entire food system is threatened by climate change.