Closing gaps: integrating food safety management systems into the veterinary curriculum, as a tool to improve food quality and trade

closing gaps: integrating food safety management systems into the veterinary curriculum, as a tool to improve food quality and trade

Closing gaps: Integrating food safety management systems into the veterinary curriculum a tool to improve food quality and trade

A very important and significant aspect of veterinary public health (VPH) is to enable people to have access and supply to nourishment within an appropriate quality. 1 In general, the term " quality " refers to the set of properties and characteristics of a product or service that gives it an ability to satisfy the minimum needs of a given consumer. 2 Thereby, the concept of food quality implie...

How to improve food quality management in the bakery sector

In the food industry, quality assurance (QA) systems are applied to ensure food safety and food quality to prevent liability claims and to build and maintain trust of consumers. Bakeries apply QA systems such as Hygiene code, HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points), ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and BRC (British Retail Consortium), but for them to be able to decid...

Codex Alimentarius: food quality and safety standards for international trade.

Since 1962, the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) of the Food and Agriculture Organisation/World Health Organisation has been responsible for developing standards, guidelines and other recommendations on the quality and safety of food to protect the health of consumers and to ensure fair practices in food trade. The mission of the CAC remains relevant, but a number of factors have shown the n...

Food Quality and Safety

Closing the Gaps in Our Federal Food-Safety Net Center for Science in the Public Interest

in preparing this report. We also thank the scientists in government public health agencies who provided information and inspiration for this report. Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC. Since 1971, CSPI has been working to improve the public's health, largely through its work on nutrition and food-safety issues. CSPI is supporte...