Trade and Food Standards

This book focuses on the close relationship between food standards and trade, and aims to raise awareness of international food standards. The publication opens with a presentation of the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius and the WTO agreements that regulate the application of food standards for trade. It highlights the need to engage and invest in domestic capacities, and the importance of coordinating among agriculture, health and trade authorities at the national level. It underlines that trade is dynamic and continually changing in response to market developments, technology improvement, climate change and demographic and socio-economic factors. As such, only through strong institutions, both nationally and internationally, will it be possible to make food safer and fulfil the nutrition requirements of a growing population.