Standards related foods and food products

Abstract

Food quality and safety standards that are critically important both for developed and developing economies, where the consumers’ safety is among the primary issues to be considered in food supply chain management. After the rapid development of many economies, quality standards have focused on consumers’ demand for safe food and beverage. So, therefor, food quality and safety protection was emerged with the objectives of safeguarding consumers from both economic and health risks and to ensure the functioning of food markets in an orderly manner by prohibiting the production and sale of unsafe food products and fraudulent acts committed on foods. Ensuring the food quality and safety of domestically produced, exported and imported food and food products constitutes one of the areas of food quality and safety protection. This is with an assumption that maintaining the quality of these foods is essential to protect public health, to satisfy the expectation of consumers, and to enhance foreign earnings and to maintain the confidence of food trading partners. Hence, governments assure the quality and safety of domestically produced, imported and exported food and food products. It has been noted that foods related laws in Ethiopia also do not meet what the supplying of safe and of good quality food so demands. Everyone involved in food quality assurance system from farmer to the consumer is expected to shares in the responsibilities of ensuring the supply of good quality and safe food to the domestic consumers and foreign markets. According to the law, farmers and processing companies have the greatest responsibility for food safety assurance. In addition, they need to prove that they have applied diligence and traceability practices. The aim of this paper is to review the general concepts of standards related to foods and foods products by compare Ethiopian standards with international standards.