Role of different bodies in enhancing food safety and availability

Mercy Limbua

As food trade expands across the world, food safety has become a shared concern between the developed and developing countries. Enhancing food safety, is vital to improving the health and nutrition of consumers, an SDG 2 goal.

Improving food availability does not only benefit those at nutritional risk without correspondence to improvements in the nutritional quality and safety of food as there is reduced food-borne illness and disease. To address food safety, developing countries should evaluate investments in the overall scope of public health, nutrition and food systems policies.