A Critical Appraisal of Different Food Safety and Quality Management Tools to Accomplish Food Safety

Abstract Food safety has become an emerging issue these days, because of the consumer concern as well as the regulatory concerns toward quality and safety of food. Physical, chemical, and biological contaminants action are the tri- factorial causes of food spoilage. To minimize or manage the food safety risk, there is a need to design and implement food safety and quality standards and quality assurance systems in food industries in order to produce safe food. Food safety requires very close concern at all stages in the food chain from farm to folk, which involves the harvesting stage to the consumption stage. Expansion of food supply chain takes place from the regional level to the international level, and therefore there must be a mutual understanding needed between government bodies, manufacturers, and customers. This chapter gives a overview picture of different food safety certification schemes and quality management systems & other popular standards to bring out quality products from a food industry in a safe manner.