Food Safety: State-of-Play, Current and Future Challenges
Food safety seeks to strike a balance between guaranteeing a high level of public health, environmental and consumer protection, while at the same time providing a stable regulatory environment for actors in the food chain. Food safety challenges relate to cross-cutting issues such as globalisation and climate change, as well as to specific cases – e.g. persistent episodes of food borne illness, Endocrine Disruptors and nanotechnology, particularly in the context of current and future regulation and non-regulatory actions. This document was provided by Policy Department A for the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI).
In-Depth Analysis
External author
Robert Pederson (Food Policy Consultants) and Guillermo Hernández (Milieu Ltd)
About this document
Publication type
Policy area
Keyword
- AGRI-FOODSTUFFS
- agricultural activity
- AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES
- avian influenza
- climate change
- deterioration of the environment
- economic policy
- ECONOMICS
- ENVIRONMENT
- food technology
- food technology
- foodstuffs legislation
- free-trade agreement
- genetically modified organism
- globalisation
- health
- health risk
- international trade
- nanotechnology
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- technology and technical regulations
- toxic substance
- TRADE