International Food Safety Standards Protect Consumers and Farmers
What are Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures and topic areas? Sanitary measures are those meant to protect human and animal health and phytosanitary measures address plant health.
As many African economies grow, governments are dealing with complex public health issues including a pronounced need for updated food safety regulatory systems. While food safety modernization is an essential part of effective agricultural regulation, this has also resulted in an increase in non-tariff barriers to trade. Harmonized standards within regions and among trading partners – and ideally harmonized with global standards – facilitates agricultural trade, improving access to markets for farmers, and access to safe food for consumers.
AFSI has four focus areas in promoting harmonized regulations: maximum pesticide residue levels (MRLs), standards for phytosanitary inspection at borders, animal health sanitary programs, and food safety measures.
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