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Areas of non-negotiable achievements of advanced agri-food systems:
the relevance of the highest possible food safety standards in the transformation (2025)

Art

Buchbeitrag

Autoren

Meemken, Diana (WE 8)

Blaha, Thomas

Quelle

Intensive livestock production in transition : analyses, concepts and strategies for sustainability transformation of the livestock value chain — Barbara Grabkowsky, Thomas Blaha (Hrsg.)

1. Auflage

Cham: Springer, 2025 — S. 219–224

ISBN: 978-3-031-97871-5

Sprache

Englisch

Verweise

URL (Volltext): https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-97872-2_10

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-97872-2_10

Kontakt

Institut für Lebensmittelsicherheit und -hygiene

Königsweg 69
14163 Berlin
+49 30 838 62551 / 52790
lebensmittelhygiene@vetmed.fu-berlin.de / fleischhygiene@vetmed.fu-berlin.de

Abstract / Zusammenfassung

This chapter describes the long way of making sure that food is not harmful from mankind’s beginning until today. The major milestones and paradigm shifts for reaching the goal of preventing food-borne disease and mortality are outlined. It is argued that nowadays food in the Global North is as safe as it has ever been before when all known and doable food safety rules are complied with. It explains why food, which was until 30 years ago excluded from international trade, can be traded today without posing an unacceptable risk to consumers by importing unsafe food. To conclude, it is stated that no deterioration of the highest food safety standards can be ethically justified by whatever gain in the transformation of intensive livestock production.