review · Journal of Food Safety
Foodborne diseases pose substantial global risks, particularly to young, elderly, pregnant, and immunocompromised populations. Despite these threats, strategies for improving safe food supplies remain poorly understood across stakeholders. Multiple barriers hinder the adoption of food safety protocols and standards. Key challenges include information dissemination gaps, high costs associated with adopting programmes, and low educational levels among food handlers. In addition, efforts face severe deficits such as inadequate funding, shortages of testing equipment, a scarcity of skilled personnel, high training expenses, and insufficient testing laboratories. A lack of coordination among organisations responsible for food safety further compounds these difficulties. Overcoming these barriers requires targeted resource support for industry and oversight agencies, alongside building the competencies of food safety personnel, inspectorates, and national or regional laboratories to secure the global food supply.
Foodborne illnesses disproportionately threaten vulnerable groups, yet widespread gaps in safety practices persist worldwide. High compliance costs, lack of coordination, and inadequate laboratory infrastructure leave food supply chains vulnerable to contamination. Addressing these operational barriers and upgrading testing capacities helps protect public health, ensuring that communities can access reliably safe food while reducing preventable diseases across populations.
The abstract does not indicate a direct technology commercialisation pathway, as it reviews systemic challenges across the food sector. However, the findings highlight clear market needs for affordable food safety training programmes, cost-effective testing equipment, and regional laboratory services for producers and industry inspectorates. Any commercial responses to these infrastructure and skills gaps remain at an early, conceptual stage.
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Abstract Globally, the risk of foodborne diseases is high among the young, old, pregnant and immunocompromised groups. Strategies to improve safe food supply are poorly understood among stakeholders. In this paper, we discuss the importance of the adoption of food safety standards, the effects of non‐compliance of food safety protocols, consumer‐producer awareness of food safety, and the challenges involved in the adoption of food safety protocols. The major challenges include gaps in dissemination of relevant information, the cost involved in adoption of many food safety programs; low educational levels of food handlers, insufficient food testing laboratories; inadequate funding, equipment, and skilled personnel; and cost of training and education; and lack of coordination among organizations handling food safety issues. Building competencies of food safety personnel, inspectorates, national or regional laboratories and adequate resource support to industry and supporting agencies will enhance safety of the global food supply.
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DOI: 10.1111/jfs.13099
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