FOOD SAFETY ISSUES IN EUROPEAN LAW
FOOD SAFETY ISSUES IN EUROPEAN LAW

Summary/Abstract: In recent years there has been an awareness of a significant number of consumers regarding food safety problem, they becoming increasingly more interested in not only the quality but also the origin of food products consumed. The issue of food security requires a comprehensive approach to the whole food chain, ie, production, processing, transport and distribution of food. Traditionally,the issues aiming food safety are analyzed at intermediate stages of the food chain and, to a lesser extent, in the initial stages or final. Certain diseases manifested in the livestock sector have shown the need to seek their causes in the origins of the food chain or in its early stages and eliminate any deficiencies or weaknesses in the circuit traveled by food products from farm to consumer. To protect the health of consumers are needed rules governing the general principles and requirements concerning the conditions of manufacture, and marketing of foodproducts. This paper aims to analyze how the existing legislation and traceability systems in the European Union guarantee food safety

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