CONTEXT The Food Safety and Standards Act have redefined the roles and responsibilities of food regulatory workforce and calls for highly skilled human resources as it involves complex management procedures. AIMS 1) Identify the competencies needed among the food regulatory workforce in India. 2) Develop a competency-based training curriculum for food safety regulators in the country. 3) Deve...

Microbiological food safety surveillance is a system that collects data regarding food contamination by foodborne pathogens, parasites, viruses, and other harmful microbiological factors. It helps to understand the spectrum of food safety, timely detect food safety hazards, and provide relevant data for food safety supervision, risk assessment, and standards-setting. The study discusses the mic...

Development of the profit-oriented food enterprises, growing consumers’ expectations and concerns as regards food quality and safety, as well as increasing requirements of food chain actors, forced many companies to improve safety and quality of their products through implementation of the quality and safety assurance and management systems. This chapter attempts to discuss the problem outlined...

Based on the results of investigation and the suggestion from the experts, the factors influencing the college canteen food quality and safety are found and assessment system for university cafeteria food quality and safety is constructed. With the improved Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to the various indexes for the empowerment and the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, the university c...

The objectives of this study were to evaluate economic techniques used to determine the cost and benefit of Listeria monocytogenes control and to estimate the economic optimum of L. monocytogenes food safety measures. The level of food safety measures is optimal if marginal benefit and marginal cost equate. Estimates of benefit and cost of L. monocytogenes food safety measures, from available p...

This paper assesses current conditions of Chinese food safety management system and how policy makers responded to recent incidents of food scares which occurred in China. The paper identifies three aspects of Chinese food safety system which may need to be improved to enhance the system and addresses policy implications for Chinese food safety system. First, administrative structure of Chinese...

Food safety concerns people's lives and property safety, the repeated food scandals of Chinese food safety brings a great shock at home and abroad. Chinese government has put forward many policies and schemes to solve the repeated food problems in China in recent years. There are several important measures in the process of dealing with the food safety problem. Among them, food recall is the mo...

The application of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system is rapidly progressing, in particular in large and medium scale food industries. The term is becoming well known in food control and public health circles and is one which evokes food safety. However, concomitant with the headway of the HACCP system in food safety management, the incidence of foodborne diseases is ...

The occurrence of food safety incidents such as “Sanlu Milk Powder” make the public have doubts about the effectiveness of food quality safety market admittance system. Therefore, studying and evaluating the effectiveness of food quality safety market admittance system has become a problem to solve urgently. The article combines the theory of management science with the practice of food quality...