Food safety is a shared responsibility

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Food safety is not an individual concern. It involves all stakeholders from processors to consumers. The World Health Organization’s Framework for Action on Food Safety for the Southeast Asia Region says unsafe food undermines food and nutritional security, human development, and international trade. The report cited food safety challenges such as adulteration, microbiological, chemical, and radioactive contamination. Food safety is complex as it should be monitored from primary production to consumption level, where contamination may occur anytime and anywhere across the food-chain.