Both food product innovation and food safety are important sub-disciplines that offer
great potential to increase the productivity and the availability of foods. Innovative food products
can enhance the shelf life or nutritive value or both of raw food ingredients. Food safety
and quality management systems reduce the wastage due to spoilage as well as risk of microbial
contamination. Several authors pointed out that efficient implementation and functioning
of systems such as Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP), Good Manufacturing
Practices (GMP) and Risk Management Programmes (RMPs) in food industry were beneficial
to save food items being wasted.1,2 This short article will highlight the potential role of food
product innovation and food safety in future global food security.