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Improving Regulatory Delivery in Food Safety

Mitigating Old and New Risks, and Fostering Recovery

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This report describes how regulators around the world adapted to the confusion brought by the COVID-19 crisis to ensure the supply of food while maintaining food safety and security. It brings together examples of regulatory responses at regional, national and international levels. The report also discusses how, despite all the challenges, the pandemic has helped uncover new regulatory tools and foster a culture of flexibility and agility in regulatory systems.

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Foreword

This report presents a collection of regulatory responses at regional, national and international levels to ensure food safety during the pandemic. The pandemic brought additional challenges in the food safety domain in both advanced and less advanced economies. Advanced economies, where food security is not usually a challenge, had not felt the scale of such a sanitary emergency in recent history – this made managing the crisis all the more challenging. In less advanced economies, on the other hand, infrastructure and technological limitations have made economic recovery more arduous. Despite the resilience displayed by food supply chains, the pandemic has placed several additional burdens on food business operators to ensure that food supplies continue at pre-pandemic levels while applying additional lockdown, social-distancing and safety rules. Emergency laws were passed in several jurisdictions, including the EU, to prevent regulatory processes from being unduly hampered or from unjustifiably hindering business activities.

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