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FDA New Era of Smarter Food Safety Food Safety Culture Systematic Literature Review

admin — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:21:00 +0000

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the New Era of Smarter Food Safety blueprint in July 2020.1 The blueprint outlines a ten-year plan to create a safer food system, one component of which is supporting and promoting food safety culture (FSC). As part of this effort, FDA commissioned a systematic literature review to produce a synthesis of the published literature to answer three overarching questions: 1. What is FSC?; 2. How is FSC developed and maintained?; and 3. How is FSC assessed?.
A specified search algorithm applied to literature published between January 1, 2009 and April 30, 2021, identified 2,293 citations, from which 715 were deemed potentially relevant. A review of the 715 abstracts revealed 152 articles pertinent to the literature review. Full text reading of the 152 articles resulted in 79 “in-scope” articles being retained for analysis and synthesized for this literature review.

Creating a thriving food safety culture

admin — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:27:52 +0000

In the summer, I had the opportunity to work with the Safe Food for Growth (SAFEGRO) program in Vietnam. This Global Affairs Canada-funded project aims to improve Vietnamese’s access to safe food products. Food inspectors attended an advanced workshop on food safety skills and HACCP program design and evaluation. At the program, participants often spoke of hearing about ‘food safety culture’ but weren’t sure what it meant and how to turn it into action. Culture doesn’t happen magically, and it doesn’t come from repeating a buzzword. It takes deliberate steps to create and maintain.

A culture of food safety

admin — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:04:48 +0000

Since the Board decided to kick oﬀ a technicalworking group focused on food safety culture inJune 2015, we have been hard at work gatheringinput from leading practitioners and scientiststo provide stakeholders with GFSI’s position andthought leadership on food safety culture. Sucha topic that is relatively new to the global foodindustry required a diverse and passionate groupto ensure practical and comprehensive thoughtleadership. We want to thank each of the 35working group members their hard work, pas-sionate discussions, and willingness to strive fora document that will add value to all parts of theglobal food supply chain, from the farm orfactoryto the shop, and across the global reach of theGFSI-benchmarked certiﬁcation programmes.We hope you ﬁnd the document valuable to youas you embed and maintain a positive food safetyculture in your company.
Mike Robach
Chair of the GFSI Board
Lone Jespersen
Chair of the Food Safety Culture Working Group