Choosing Certifiers: Evidence from the British Retail Consortium Food Safety Standard

2018 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talia Bar ◽  
Yuqing Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Safety Standard

scholarly journals Transformation of China's food safety standard setting system – Review of 50 years of change, opportunities and challenges ahead

Food Control ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 106-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhe Zhang ◽  
Samuel B. Godefroy ◽  
Hanyang Lyu ◽  
Baoguo Sun ◽  
Yongxiang Fan
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Standard Setting ◽  
Safety Standard ◽  
System Review

Pre-HACCP as a Management Development Tool Toward Achieving Food Safety Standard: Thailand’s Experience

2015 ◽  
pp. 151-165
Author(s):  
Sudsai Trevanich ◽  
Khemmapas Ontoum ◽  
Warapa Mahakarnchanakul ◽  
Warunee Varanyanond ◽  
Chidchom Hiraga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Management Development ◽  
Safety Standard ◽  
Development Tool

Assessing the Status of Food Safety Management Systems for Fresh Produce Production in East Africa: Evidence from Certified Green Bean Farms in Kenya and Noncertified Hot Pepper Farms in Uganda

2015 ◽  
Vol 78 (6) ◽  
pp. 1081-1089 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. NANYUNJA ◽  
L. JACXSENS ◽  
K. KIREZIEVA ◽  
A. N. KAAYA ◽  
M. UYTTENDAELE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Fresh Produce ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Green Bean ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Hot Pepper ◽  
Safety Management Systems ◽  
Safety Standard ◽  
Insight Into

The farms of fresh produce farmers are major sources of food contamination by microbiological organisms and chemical pesticides. In view of their choice for farming practices, producers are influenced by food safety requirements. This study analyzes the role of food safety standard certification toward the maturity of food safety management systems (FSMS) in the primary production of fresh produce. Kenya and Uganda are two East African countries that export green beans and hot peppers, respectively, to the European Union but have contrasting features in terms of agricultural practices and certification status. In the fresh produce chain, a diagnostic instrument for primary production was used to assess context factors, core control and assurance activities, and system output to measure the performance of FSMS for certified green bean farms in Kenya and noncertified hot pepper farms in Uganda. Overall, our findings show that in Uganda, noncertified hot pepper farms revealed only a “basic level of control and assurance” activities in their FSMS, which was not satisfactory, because no insight into potential pesticide microbial contamination was presented by these farmers. On the other hand, certified green bean farms in Kenya had an “average level of control and assurance,” providing insight into the delivered food safety and quality by the farmers. Farm size did not impact the maturity level of FSMS. This study confirms the role played by food safety standard certification toward the maturity of FSMS implemented in developing countries and demonstrates the possibility of Ugandan farms to upgrade agricultural practices in the fresh produce sector.

China's Food Standardization System, Its Reform and Remaining Challenges

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-520
Author(s):  
Pinghui Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Safety Standard ◽  
Current Reform ◽  
Government Involvement ◽  
Salient Features ◽  
Regulatory Failure

The article examines China's food standardization system, its reform and remaining challenges. Upon examining China's general standardization system, the article argues that the food standardization institutional framework has originated from the general standardization, which has developed a four-level hierarchy mechanism. It further examines the most salient features of China's food standardization system, namely, top-down hierarchy and intensive government involvement, and suggests that these features caused a regulatory failure. Although China recently reformed this fi eld, and the food safety standard hierarchy has been streamlined, challenges remain. The article reviews China's current reform in the food standardization system by providing a description, analysis and comparison of approaches from Europe and China.

Local institutions and global value chains

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noburu Yoshida
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Shrimp Aquaculture ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Safety Standard ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Export Industry ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
Further Development

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how the shrimp aquaculture export industry in Vietnam can achieve further development in the highly competitive global market particularly in the context of complying with food safety standards set by the markets. Design/methodology/approach This paper applies two conceptual approaches, local institutions and global value chains. The concept of global value chains helps this paper to understand what extent the external pressures are placed on the industry while the concept of local institutions effectively examines its responses to the external pressures. Applying this conceptual framework this paper examines an empirical case analysing secondary data and literature. Findings Market requirements on food safety are brought by global buyers through the global value chains governance structure to the local institutional function. It includes local buyer-supplier relationship within the industrial cluster, industrial policy and business institutions, although it is less likely to address the local backwards suppliers to improve the industrial capability of food safety standard compliance. Research limitations/implications This paper has a research limitation due to the prioritised research scope that critically examines potential pathway for further development of Vietnamese shrimp aquaculture export industry. Therefore, it needs further comparative in-depth analysis with more vertically organised industrial structure performed by the countries such as Thailand. Originality/value The originality of this paper is to critically examine the conceptual limitation of global value chains approach in the context of food safety standard compliance issue, which is likely to be originated in local backward suppliers by applying a complementary concept, local institutions.

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