| The constant request for product and service quality is the major challenge of the 1990s for the food industry. Both developed and developing countries have faced food quality, safety, and nutrition issues to some extent. Everyone in the world deserves the right to have enough and safe food. Food safety and nutrition concerns have gained importance, with an international project initiated in 1997 by FAO called " Food for All". In the developed world, progress can be achieved in the control of food quality through new systems such as HACCP, despite the existence of technical and economic problems. In contrast in developing countries, and especially in the least developed ones, having enough and safe food for ordinary citizens is a distant target to... |
