International Standards for Food Safety

• Other Authors: Rees, Naomi (editors), Watson, David (editors)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Gaithersburg, Maryland AN ASPEN PUBLICATION 2000
• Subjects: Food adulteration and inspectioxStandards; Food industry and trade > Safety measures > Standards
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 This is one of the first books to draw together information and views about international control of food safety from around the world. Demands for safe food, against a background of increasing trade, are making international controls on food safety essential. Agreements on how to control the safety of food to meet these needs are now in place among the major trading blocks, particularly in Europe and in the USA, and more recently, in Australia. This book also describes progress in areas such as systematically reviewing risk from food; developing national infrastructures to enforce standards; and growing input from consumer groups and others, including economists, to the debate on how to set international food standards. Discussed in depth is the effort to achieve global standards for food safety under the auspices of the Codex Alimentarius Commission. There are chapters from world-leading experts on Codex, international control of radiological contamination, pesticides and veterinary drugs, and other chemical contaminants.