The first UN Food Systems Summit convened in September 2021 to spur national and regional action to deliver the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals through transforming food systems.
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.
A mysterious outbreak in October 2007, which affected about 450 people of all ages, was traced to table salt in which sodium chloride somehow had been replaced by sodium bromide, suggesting that food should be considered as a potential vehicle until it can be explicitly ruled out.
Developing modern food safety systems requires a specific level of food safety capacity that ensures the safety of imported and domestically produced food.
The Sustainable Supplier Development Program operates as an inclusive development scheme that integrates food safety into business objectives and sustainability.