Food safety

Authors Narelle Fegan and Rozita Vaskoska

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Key points

  • Although Australia has a reputation for producing safe food, it has a high incidence of some foodborne pathogens for a developed country, indicating that improvements are needed.
  • Food safety is essential to building trust in our agrifood system both domestically and globally.
  • Food safety continually evolves to assess threats arising from new foods, technologies and distribution pathways.
Citation
Fegan N and Vaskoska R (2025) Insight 3: Food safety. In: Nelson R, Lim-Camacho L and Robinson C (eds) Towards a state of the food system report for Australia. CSIRO, Australia.