Regulations for safety of animal source foods in selected Sub-Saharan African countries: Current statu and their implicationss

Mohammad Jabbar () and Delia Grace

No 181867, Research Reports from International Livestock Research Institute

Abstract: In order to understand the current of safety standards and problems for animal source foods, a study was conducted in six sub-Saharan African countries - Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa and Tanzania. The objective was to review food safety policy and regulations and their implementation, food safety status in terms of a number of criteria e.g. nature of public health problems and regularity of testing such problems, prevalence of food-borne diseases of international and developing country importance, probability of inspection of various retail food outlets and the type of risk assessment and traceability systems being used in the animal source food supply chains.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.181867

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