The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published a concept paper that outlines the agency’s future work and goals for improving risk communication across the EU food safety system.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently evaluated an ongoing project to improve food safety in Bangladesh, titled, “Institutionalization of Food Safety in Bangladesh for Safer Food.”

Safe Food for Infants in the EU and China (SAFFI) recently published three papers that lay new groundwork for advancing global infant food safety.

In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we interview Dr. Guangtao Zhang, the Director of the Mars Global Food Safety Center (GFSC), on the center’s work in advancing mycotoxin risk management, microbial risk management, and food integrity by generating new insights, driving technology innovations, and improving food safety capabilities and methodologies.

The authors and collaborating food safety experts have delineated several unique features in Australia around food safety and quality: intimate collaborations across sectors and functions, "walk the talk," and skills and capacity building.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently published a comprehensive paper that discusses the available international and national regulatory strategies for combatting food fraud.

The authors and collaborating food safety experts have identified four predominant features around food safety culture in European cultures. These features include mixed attitudes toward the adoption of new ideas as food safety management changes, active engagement in food safety and quality, consensual decision-making, and a prevailing dependence on internal drive (as opposed to regulatory dictation) in fostering food safety culture.

The Food Safety Matters team is joined by Bob Ferguson of Strategic Consulting to review the top food safety stories and impacts of 2021.

This Regional Culture article series will examine the differences and features that prevail and render each global region unique with regard to food safety culture. Ultimately, the goal is to foster understanding and enable better communicate and management of food safety culture.  

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.