What is Food Safety?
Food safety is a scientific discipline describing the handling, preparation and storage of food in ways to prevent food borne illness. Randomly sampling of product biologically, physically and chemically is done to ensure that that batch of production is safe for consumption, within legal issues and of good quality.
Food can potentially become contaminated through improper practices from the time it is produced to the time it is consumed. Hence, from the government bodies to the people in the food industries to us consumers, everyone plays an important role in maintaining food safety.
Who ensures food safety?
The government is responsible for establishing a framework that promotes the delivery of safe food by the industry, and the provision of adequate information to consumers.The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) is the national authority for food safety in Singapore. To ensure that food sold in Singapore is safe, AVA sets stringent food safety standards that are consistent with international standards.
People in the food industry have to maintain high food safety standards by complying with AVA's stringent requirements.
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