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Food Safety: A Multidimensional Concept

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Food is an indispensable part of daily life, and therefore, food safety is of paramount importance. Food safety affects people across the globe as millions around the world are severely affected and many lose their life due to consumption of unsafe food. Besides the well-known microbial or chemical challenges of food safety, personal and environmental hygiene also form an important constituent of challenges in ensuring food safety worldwide. As standard and quality of living improve, food safety concerns and potential health hazards continue to be an important public health issue worldwide. Further, safe food warrants sound scientific principles and equitable legislative enforcements. Safe food not only supports nutrition security of the masses, but also helps the national economy to grow and achieve sustainable development goals. This chapter discusses the concept of food safety, multidimensionality of food safety, various sources of risks to food, working principles of risk analysis, operationalizing the risk analysis, and appropriate standards to mitigate the food risks. It also presents view on international perspective in food safety and holistic approaches to food safety.

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Kotwal, V. (2022). Food Safety: A Multidimensional Concept. In: S. V., R., Praveen, S. (eds) Conceptualizing Plant-Based Nutrition. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4590-8_12

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