At a governmental level, food safety control for public
health protection by necessity covers the range of different
food chains relevant to a certain food product or
product group, including all relevant producers, manufacturing
sites and food service establishments within
the country as well as those importing into the country.
FAO and WHO have called upon countries to apply
modern international food safety and quality standards
to protect consumer health. Appreciating the complexity
of the current food safety supply within and across
countries, both organisations advocated using Risk
Analysis as the single framework for building food
safety control programs. Partly through the activities
of Codex Alimentarius and ad hoc expert consultations,
FAO and WHO have developed a series of guidelines
and reports that detail out the various steps in Risk
Analysis, namely Risk Management, Risk Assessment
and Risk Communication