Global food safety policies: Standards, challenges, and compliance

Food safety is a critical global public health priority that encompasses the proper management, preparation, and storage of food to prevent contamination and foodborne diseases (FBDs). To ensure food safety in the linked globe of today, international collaboration and robust regulatory systems are very vital. Examining significant standards, new issues, and strategies for ensuring compliance helps this study of international food safety rules to be comprehensive. Foodborne diseases impact about 600 million people annually, and primarily in underdeveloped areas over 420,000 people die from them. Among the major issues the paper highlights are new chemical contaminants (such as PFAS and microplastics), food fraud, antibiotic resistance, global warming, and disconnected regulatory systems. It also looks at the World Health Organisation, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the Codex Alimentarius, the SPS Agreement of the World Trade Organisation, and ISO 22000 international frameworks and bodies guiding global projects to guarantee food safety. Effective surveillance systems, traceability technologies, and digital innovations are key methods for raising risk detection and compliance. Three of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) this paper focused on health, hunger, and responsible consumption that relate to food safety. Among the recommendations are those for increasing global cooperation, funding laboratory and monitoring capability, harmonising regulations, and combining public health initiatives with food safety campaigns. Food safety determines public health, economic development, and sustainability; so, the outcomes reveal more than just a technical or legal challenge.