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Approaches to the Management and Policing of Food Safety: The Food Standard Agency’s Regulating Our Future
Approaches to the Management and Policing of Food Safety: The Food Standard Agency’s Regulating Our Future

Author(s): Richard Bradford-Knox, Kevin Kane, Simon Neighbour
Subject(s): Management and complex organizations, Health and medicine and law, Policy, planning, forecast and speculation, Economic development, Environmental interactions, Law on Economics
Published by: New Millennium Discoveries Ltd
Keywords: Cooperation; Collaboration; Trust; Risk Management; Compliance; Food Standard Agency; Food Safety;

Summary/Abstract: This paper forms part of an ongoing project studying various approaches to the management of hazards and risk in the food industry with implications for other areas of risk management where cooperation and collaboration between organisations are of a potential benefit. In this paper we give particular focus to the Food Standard Agency’s proposed Regulating Our Future that requires closer cooperation and collaboration between the public enforcement authorities and the industry organisations that police food hygiene and food safety management. The forming of a Primary Authority between Cornwall Council and Safe and Local Supplier Approval (SALSA) emerged as a potential means of contributing to this by improving trust between all parties involved, sharing of information, assessing risk, reducing inspection times and frequency of inspections from Primary Authority. Attention is given to the current relationship between the various organisations involved from the perspectives and viewpoints of Local Authority Enforcement Officers from Preston City Council, Cornwall Council and SALSA and other experienced food safety professionals. The research is qualitative and grounded, including a review of the extant literature and interviews with food safety and food standards professionals from the private and public enforcement sectors.

  • Issue Year: 7/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 165-183
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English