Food Safety In Countries Research Articles

THE ORETICAL BASICS OF ENSURING FOOD SECURITY IN UZBEKISTAN

This article reveals the importance, essence and theoretical foundations of ensuring food safety. Based on the analysis of socio-economic changes and measures implemented to ensure food safety in Uzbekistan during the years of independence, it contains relevant proposals for strengthening the country's food safety.

Applying Critical Systems Practice meta-methodology to improve sustainability in the rice supply chain of Iran

Rice is the main agricultural product in the Iranians' basket of goods, as it has been the most imported grain in the past two decades in Iran and holds second place in Iran's food consumption economy. Therefore, a sustainable rice supply is vital to this country's food safety. In this research, we considered the rice supply chain of Iran (RSCI) as a system and defined the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) of sustainability as its subsystem. Then, for the first time in agri-food supply chains, we developed a framework based on a comprehensive system meta-methodology called Critical Systems Practice (CSP) to tackle different facets of sustainability. The developed framework allows the utilization of different system methodologies. So, we modeled economic sustainability using System Dynamics and employed Soft Systems Methodology, Critical Systems Heuristics methodology, and Interactive Planning methodology to define social and environmental sustainability in the RSCI. The results show that the proposed framework can simulate the final price of rice in the RSCI while providing the supply chain managers with seven enforceable policies to achieve sustainability in this supply chain. Also, simulation results show that self-sufficiency in rice production will be an impractical policy toward the economic sustainability of the RSCI.

Arsenic in the foodstuffs: potential health appraisals in a developing country, Bangladesh.

The presence of highly poisonous arsenic (As) elements in food concerns humans and animals. In Bangladesh, arsenic-contaminated groundwater is frequently utilized for agricultural irrigation. This is a significant source of arsenic pollution in the human food chain. For the first time, we investigated the presence of total arsenic in various foodstuffs obtained from 30 distinct agricultural eco-zones of Bangladesh to understand human exposure to arsenic through the food chain in Bangladesh. The greatest and lowest As concentrations were reported in fish among the examined dietary items (0.55mg/kg, fw) and fruit (0.0068mg/kg, fw), respectively. The results show that arsenic consumption from daily diet and food with drinking water was estimated to be 0.0352mg/day for rural residents and 0.2002mg/day for urban residents, respectively. The highest target hazard quotients (THQ) of arsenic in the fish samples surpassed the allowable limit (> 1), proving that fish are the primary dietary items influencing the possible danger to health. However, the target cancer risk (TR) from nutritional arsenic consumption was likewise higher than tolerable. A value of 10-4 indicates that Bangladeshi people are continuously exposed to arsenic, which has carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic dangers. Overall, our results highlight that people in Bangladesh are exposed to hazardous levels of arsenic throughout the food chain, which should be addressed to ensure the country's food safety.

Construction of a Traceability System for Food Industry Chain Safety Information Based on Internet of Things Technology.

The continuous development of the social economy, has stimulataed an increase in the satndard of living and increased the deman for consumption resulting in the demand for high-quality and safe food has continued to increase. The so-called food safety means that the food that people eat under certain conditions will not harm human health. Frequent food safety incidents have highlighted the seriousness of my country's food safety problems and exposed loopholes in my country's food safety supervision. This article aims to study the construction of the Internet of Things technology in the food industry chain safety information traceability system, research on the RFID technology, GPS technology, and sensor technology in the Internet of things technology, and also conduct some research on the modules of the food industry chain safety information traceability system. This paper proposes to integrate the Internet of Things technology into the construction of the food industry chain safety information traceability system. First, a detailed analysis of some of the technologies that may be used is carried out, and then through the investigation of people on food safety and other aspects, and the food traceability system satisfaction survey. The experimental results in this article show that 40% of women pay more attention to food safety. Of course, in the satisfaction survey of the food safety traceability system based on the Internet of Things technology, it has been recognized by more than 20% of the people.

Dinamiche recenti del manifatturiero alimentare in Italia

Food supply and processing represent strategic sectors in the pursuit of a country's food safety. For Italy, food manufacturing also plays an important role in terms of size and performance in the national economy. The aim of this paper is to offer an economic overview of Italian food manufacturing, analyzing both macroeconomic and microeconomic trends. The results indicate an important positioning of the sector in the Italian economy. At the firm level, however, there are critical issues due to the small size of companies. Finally, while firms in the sector are very committed to the certification of their activities, the high number of product recalls for food safety risks reveals problems that need further investigation.

Food safety knowledge, attitude and self-reported practice of secondary school students in Beijing, China: A cross-sectional study.

In China, food safety problems have occurred frequently in the past ten years, causing great concern for the public. Adolescents, with higher exposure to problematic food, represent a unique target for interventions aimed at risk reduction. To understand their food safety knowledge, attitude and practice, a cross-sectional survey using paper questionnaire was carried out among 4,220 students (median age of 14 years, 50.3% females) from nine secondary schools in 3 districts of Beijing. The findings showed that the majority of respondents (42.0%) had a high knowledge level. Significant association was found between food safety knowledge score (median = 11, IQR:9–13) and demographic characteristics of region, school type, residence type, habit of smoking and alcohol use, academic record and parents’ education background. In terms of attitude and practice, only 17% of those surveyed regarded China’s food safety situation as good, 53.6% regarded it as worrying; almost all students (96.5%) did pay attention to food safety; 95.3% of the students had worried about the safety of the food provided by the small restaurants and street peddlers, but in reality, as many as 69.4% often or occasionally bought food from peddlers around their campuses and nearly half continued the consumption of such food in spite of worrying about its safety problems. Overall, the food safety knowledge among Beijing secondary school students was relatively good. They did not show much confidence in the country’s food safety situation, but many aware of the safety issues did not bother to change or take action. The study suggests that more systematic and targeted education on food safety is necessary for this age group.

Economically motivated food fraud and adulteration in China: An analysis based on 1553 media reports

Based on 1553 media reports on food safety scandals and concerns, we conducted an aggregated analysis on economically motivated food frauds and adulterations in China. A systematic approach is used to analyze the country's food safety concern in terms of fraud type, implicated foods, adulterants, contaminants and abnormal conditions, and concerned food sources. This study indicate that economically motivated food fraud and adulteration was an emerging and serious food safety problem in China. The results of the study can be used not only to analyze food safety risks but also to prioritize target areas for food policy-making and enforcement of food safety regulation.

Research on the Influence Factors and Strategy of Food Safety of Athletes

This study from the Angle of food safety, in light of the present condition of the athletes food safety exists and the knot of the main problems of food safety and food safety laws and regulations to ensure athletes of analyzed the domestic and foreign athletes food safety laws and regulations, then to athletes in our country's food laws and regulations, system and supervision model, from the anti-doping regulations and the existing problems, from a regulatory reasons: lead to the occurrence of food safety is one of the most important factor is the lack and the imperfect legislation, law enforcement and supervision legal system of three levels, without a sound supervision mechanism. Food safety regulatory athletes should according to the national law food safety law and it’s implementing rules, followed by another reference regional health laws and regulations, establishing and perfecting food safety legal system constantly. Regulators and regulatory content analysis on the present situation of the athletes in our country food safety regulation, supervision and management of reference foreign athlete’s food safety law, athlete’s legal supervision and administration of food safety research in China.

English

Poor efficiency in the use of land, labor, finance and other resources available is characteristic of Russia‟s agriculture at the present stage. In most subindustries, the country has not yet achieved the production volume of the early 90s. In the last decade there was a positive trend marked to update logistics and intensify innovative advance in the agriculture, the processes being actively supported by the state, but this did not result in appreciable improvements of the agriculture competitiveness in the global food market. During the study it is revealed that the industry credit debt has gone up three-fold over the past 7 years that made up 1.43trillion rubles versus 112 billion rubles of revenue in 2012. The authors propose a technique to attract private investments in the agriculture of Russia and economic-organizing mechanism to realize it. Hereto, a considerable part is played by state regulation, particularly to provide investment-back guarantees in the event that a project-implementing agricultural organization goes bankrupt. To hold up, the authors consider a number of investment projects implemented by one of the Russian Federation entities which demonstrate their effectiveness both for the investors and the state. Employing the data obtained from the study will allow to largely increase the rates of technical and technological re-equipment of the industry, improve its investment attractiveness and competitiveness based on innovations and this will provide the country's food safety and gross domestic product growth.