FOOD 2010 Lecture 2: Unit 2

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Food Science
• Course: FOOD 2010
• Professor: Massimo Marcone

Document Summary

What are food laws and regulations: throughout the ages, food laws have been in place to serve as standards of food identity and uniformity, and to outline food safety needs. Recently, they have placed key roles for ensuring consumer protection and to facilitate domestic and international trade. Food regulatory agencies and legislation: variety of international and domestic agencies that deal with development and enforcement of food laws and regulations. The world: most important agencies involved with establishing international food standards are the. Food and agriculture organizations (fao) of the united nations and the world health. Organization (who) their recommendations and guidelines often provide direction for individual countries to develop legislation that enables their products to be traded on the world market. Food and agriculture organization (fao) of the united nations: founded in october 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity and better the condition of rural populations.