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Adrie J. M. Beulens, a, Douwe-Frits Broens, b, 1, Peter Folstarc and Gert Jan Hofsteded (2004) ‘’Food safety and transparency in food chains and networks Relationships and challenges.
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Abstract
European consumers are worried about the safety of their food. These concerns are caused by a continuing sequence of food scandals and incidents during the last decade. In response, consumers call for high quality food, food integrity, safety guarantees and transparency. Governments are imposing new legislation. Retailers are imposing new demands on their supply chains. Food supply chains react by implementing systems to improve the product’s quality and guarantee its safety, at the same time making transparent that they do so. Such actions can be taken at the level of either the individual company or the complete network of supply chains. We describe the challenges involved in achieving food safety and transparency by cooperating in the supply chain network. To this end, we elaborate on a real world case in an SME environment.

Keywords: Food safety; Food supply chains; Transparency

Relevance to our study:
The paper emphasises that food chain need to become more sustainable to regain and retain consumer trust after recent food incidents and scandals. Respondding to this governments has put in place strategy to restore consumers’ belief in the safety of food. This is based on a combination of high stardard for food, animal health and welfare, and plant health.

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