Challenges in food safety on national level

The WHO has identified several challenges with respect to national food safety programmes:

• Absence of food legislation or basic food safety laws
• Lack of subsidiary food legislation/codes of practice
• Lack of central coordination of efforts
• Poor consultation process
• Reliance on end-product testing
• Lack of appropriately trained personnel
• Lack of personnel in national agencies trained in HACCP for food safety assurance
• Food control laboratories are unaccredited, have wrong priorities, and/or lacking in Quality Assurance (QA) programmes

Source:
http://www.who.int/foodsafety/fs_management/natl_programmes/en/index.html (consulted on 04 April 2013)