Food Safety Legislation in Some Developing Countries

With incidence of food-borne diseases, consumers have become more conscious of food safety. Share of high value food items in the export bounty from developing countries like India is on the rise. These high value food items such as fresh & processed fruits and vegetables, marine products, meat and its preparations are highly income elastic as well as sensitive from the viewpoint of food safety. Article 20 of GATT allows governments to act on trade in order to protect human, animal or plant life or health, provided they do not discriminate or use this as disguised protectionism. SPS Agreement sets out the basic rules concerning food safety and animal & plant health standards. It allows countries to set their own standards but also says that regulations must be based on science. With increased retail concentration ratio, large retailers in the developed countries are enforcing their own food safety standards and these standards are stringent as compared to standards of standard setting bodies of WTO. At times these standards are used for discrimination in international trade and are telling upon the exports from developing countries in terms of additional costs of compliance and lack of “harmonization” and difficulties in establishing “equivalence”. For the benefit of exporters from the developing countries and consumers of the developed countries, efforts must be made for encouraging harmonization in these private standards and reducing the resulting discrimination.

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Rapid Detection Techniques for Biological and Chemical Contamination in Food: A Review

International Journal of Food Engineering ◽

10.2202/1556-3758.1744 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 5 (5) ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Yali Tang ◽

Lixin Lu ◽

Wei Zhao ◽

Jun Wang

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Food Safety ◽

Rapid Detection ◽

Detection Methods ◽

Chemical Contamination ◽

Detection Techniques ◽

Examination Technique ◽

Production Improvement ◽

Long Time ◽

Contamination Problem

The contamination problem in food safety is still a major concern not only for developing countries but also for the industrialized world. To guarantee the food safety, the advanced examination technique is needed urgently. However, the traditional methods have some typical drawbacks which include: high costs of implementation, long time of analysis and low samples throughput, and the need for high qualified manpower. The availability of fast, reliable and simple to use detecting tools for food products is therefore a target both for the safeguard of customer's health and production improvement. This article overviews the progress of the rapid detection methods for biological and chemical contamination in food.

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Public health implications of microbial food safety and foodborne diseases in developing countries

Food & Nutrition Research ◽

10.3402/fnr.v60.29819 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 60 (1) ◽

pp. 29819 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Olumide A. Odeyemi

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Food Safety ◽

Foodborne Diseases ◽

Health Implications

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Water quality and food safety: a review and discussion of risks

Water Policy ◽

10.2166/wp.2009.037 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 680-695 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Puja Jawahar ◽

Claudia Ringler

Keyword(s):

Water Quality ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Food Safety ◽

Water Use ◽

Water Quality Management ◽

High Water ◽

Health Issues ◽

Animal Products ◽

Main Research ◽

Safety Risks

While increased diversification of developing-country diets as a result of agricultural and economic growth has improved nutritional status and human health, the increased consumption of high-value products—particularly fresh fruits, vegetables, dairy and animal products—has lead to significant food safety risks associated with unsafe management and use of water resources These risks are both magnified and masked in developing countries due to a lack of regulation combined with a dearth of data and information on the relations between water use, water quality and food safety risks. Given the likely estimated rapid increase in production, trade, and consumption of agricultural commodities with high water-related food safety risks, avoiding contamination and maintaining water quality and food safety are becoming growing public health issues in developing countries. This paper introduces the linkages between water quality and food safety, describes the causes for declining water quality levels, and identifies the various stages of the production process that are vulnerable to contamination due to water use. It concludes with a review of constraints to food safety and water quality management and identifies the main research gaps relevant to agricultural water management in developing countries.

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The Impact of NTMs on Trade

International Journal of Finance & Banking Studies (2147-4486) ◽

10.20525/ijfbs.v8i1.280 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 37-47

Author(s):

Masoud Ali Khalid ◽

Narmen Ghafor

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Food Safety ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Technical Standards ◽

Safety Standards ◽

Trade Sector ◽

Food Safety Standards ◽

The Impact

Non-tariff measures such as food safety and technical standards are used to achieve the non-trade objective of protecting consumers’ health and safety. On the other hand, they can also be deployed as a trade secure tool to drive a price wedge between foreign and domestic producers. This study investigates the protectionist tools of 34 developing countries food safety standards using a sample of developing countries food imported from developed and other developing countries with a specific focus on vegetables, Trunks, machinery, and tobacco. We employ theoretical framework of gravity equation by applying SGMM estimation. Our results indicate that vegetable and machinery variables are negative and statistically significant. Meaning that both variables have a negative impact on GDP, in other words, both variables are not support GDP and economic growth in the developing countries. Finally, Trunk variable is positive and statistically significant. It shows that, this variable leads to promote economic growth in the developing countries. While Tobacco is positive and statistically insignificant, meaning that this product is not play an important role in the trade sector in our sample countries.

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