Ensuring Global Food Safety : Exploring Global Harmonization

Ensuring Global Food Safety: Exploring Global Harmonization, Second Edition, examines the policies and practices of food law which remain top contributors to food waste. This fully revised and updated edition offers a rational and multifaceted approach to the science-based issue of "what is safe for consumption?" and how creating a globally acceptable framework of microbiological, toxicological and nutritional standards can contribute to the alleviation of hunger and food insecurity in the world. Currently, many laws and regulations are so stringent that healthy food is destroyed based on scientifically incorrect information upon which laws and regulations are based.

This book illuminates these issues, offering guidelines for moving toward a scientifically sound approach to food safety regulation that can also improve food security without putting consumers at risk.

• Presents the progress and current status of regulatory harmonization for food standards
• Provides a science-based foundation for global regulatory consensus
• Approaches challenges from a risk-benefit approach, also including safety assurance
• Includes global perspectives from governmental, academic and industry experts

Aleksandra Martinovic,Associate Professor, Faculty of Food Technology, Food Safety and Ecology - ‎University of Donja Gorica
Dr Aleksandra Martinović's research interest focuses on the practical application of fundamental knowledge in the field of food safety, microbiology of food, and the development and implementation of new technologies in the food industry.
The Ambassador is the Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI) for Montenegro, the Chair of the Global Interest Harmonization Group (SIG) and the Task Team (TT) Scientific Committees in the European Federation of Food Science and Technology the European Federation of Food Science and Technology, chairman of the meat hygiene working group within the European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group (EHEDG). She is a member of a specialized fish processing group within the European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group (EHEDG).
Dr Martinovic has independently or as a co-author published dozens of scientific papers, a chapter in a scientific monograph issued abroad, a textbook for pre-university level of education, and a study manual.

Prof Sangsuk Oh received his B.A .degree from the Seoul National University and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. He was honored by the Korean Food and Drug Administration for the ‘Efforts to implementation of food safety system in Korea’ and ‘Career achievement award from IUFoST and an academic award from the Korean Society of Food Hygiene and Safety. He co-founded the Korean Food Safety Institute and acted as the chairperson of the organization. He has worked as an editor for the publication of several books related to food safety. As an IUFoST Fellow, He served as chairman of IUFoST’s Food Chemistry Division. He had experience at US FDA as a Staff Fellow of the National Center for Food Science and Technology at Summit-Argo, IL. He also served as vice president of the Korean Society of Food Science and Technology and the Korean Society of Food Hygiene and Safety. He was a member of many governmental committees related to food safety including the Prime Minister of South Korea Food Safety committee. In addition, he has experience in the food industry as well. At the Shany Food Research and Development Center, he served as director of the center and acted as the head of the flight meal safety center for Korean Air.

Prof. dr. h.c. Huub Lelieveld, formerly with Unilever, now President of the Global Harmonization Initiative, a non-governmental organisation working towards globally harmonised and science based food safety regulations, is also a member of the Executive Committee and Past-President of EFFoST (the European Federation of Food Science and Technology), Founder and Past-President of EHEDG (the European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group). He is Fellow of IAFoST (the International Academy of Food Science and Technology), Fellow of IFT (the Institute of Food Technologists), served on the Governing Council of IUFoST (the International Union of Food Science and Technology) and has been Chair of the Nonthermal Processing and International divisions of IFT. At Unilever, he was responsible for hygienic processing and plant design and novel processing technologies.
He is editor or co-editor of many books, on food hygiene, food safety and food processing technologies. He also wrote many chapters for such books as well as hundreds of articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and in relevant magazines. He is visiting professor at the National University of Food Technologies in Kiev, Ukraine.