Putting food safety policy into proper focus
1979
Turner, James M.
There are three major ideas that may lead to clear thinking about food safety policy. First, food safety science is not synonymous with food safety policy. Second, food safety science's ability to resolve food safety policy problems is severely limited. Third, food safety problems are part of the larger, more significant environmental problem. Regarding this problem, any risk-based food safety system (even one that weighs risks against benefits) excludes from policy considerations that which is either unknown, undetected or unmeasurable. Step one for a sound policy is to remove all sources of risk that can be removed; step two involves an epidemiological program, monitoring on a long term basis all substances thought safe enough to allow in the food supply. Policy-makers must avoid misunderstanding the nature of risk and assuming that food safety science can solve food safety problems. Science should increase and upgrade the available data on food safety issues.
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