Global food safety: determinants are Codex standards and WTO's SPS food safety regulations
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate perspective in explaining how global food safety can be created through stringent implementation of Codex and World Trade Organization (WTOs) Sanitary and Phytosanitary food safety regulations and suggests the appropriate food safety system for India.
Design/methodology/approach
The study has been deployed a survey questionnaire using a sample of Indian Processed food sector. In order to collect data 1,000 supply chain professional were contacted for seeking their consent to be part of the survey. Whereas total responses collected were 252 from Delhi and NCR, with response rate 25.2 percent. The data collected was empirical tested using descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, regression and ANOVA.
Findings
The results and discussions indicate that all the global food safety norms laid down by WTO such as goods manufacturing practices, good hygienic practice, hazard analysis critical control point, has been developed to embody principles of safe food processing sector globally. India has also developed their food safety norms as per laid down principles by WTO.
Originality/value
The present research work makes an important contribution to the body of literature on global food safety. The paper has important implications for the processed food sector since it tries to bring out practices which would help in successful implementation of global food safety standards. It is useful for academic food research as well as for processed food corporate.
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Acknowledgements
Authors would like to acknowledge DAAD for awarding scholarship for carrying out doctoral research work in Germany, editor of journal and anonymous reviewers for his/her detailed comments to improve the present research paper.
Citation
Mahajan, R., Garg, S. and Sharma, P.B. (2014), "Global food safety: determinants are Codex standards and WTO's SPS food safety regulations", Journal of Advances in Management Research, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 176-191. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAMR-01-2013-0007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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