Originally published as the British Food Journal Volume 107 Number 3, 2005
ISBN: 1 84544 162 1
Guest edited by: Chris Griffith, UWIC, Cardiff, UK.
Food safety worldwide remains a major public health concern. This Special Issue brings together five papers on the highly topical area of compliance with food safety legislation.
Considering, amongst other things, food safety inspections and enforcement, legislation compliance by small businesses, and consumer issues and perspectives, this is a key resource for all food industry professionals.
Contents:
Are we making the most of food safety inspections?: A glimpse into the future
Inspections by environmental health practitioners are an important element of how regulatory agencies attempt to ensure that consumers are provided with safe food. However, there are concerns about the efficacy of inspections at a time of industry expansion and limited resources. This paper seeks to review traditional and potential new approaches to inspection.
The Toronto food inspection and disclosure system: A case study
This article describes and then reviews the Toronto food inspection system and assesses the mandated completion rates, compliance rates, the impact of food-handler training and levels of standardization in inspection and enforcement activities.
Assessing compliance with food safety legislation in small businesses
This article aims to describe a research methodology used to examine compliance with food safety legislation within small businesses and the effect of local authority interventions on compliance. Different methodological approaches used within the research design are evaluated.
Protecting consumers: A review of hygiene award schemes
Hygiene award schemes are intended to promote excellent food safety standards. They should encourage food premises to raise standards and provide consumers with more information. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is considering a national hygiene award scheme as part of its strategy to improve food safety management in food businesses throughout the UK. This paper seeks to review four hygiene award schemes that are currently operating in the UK.
Food safety information and food demand
The purpose of this paper is to analyze how news about food-related health risks affects consumers’ demands for safe food products.
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