2014 World Ranking Food Safety Performance report places Canada first
Canada ranks first, followed by Ireland and France as the top 3 countries in food safety performance according to the 2014 World Ranking Food Safety Performance a new report produced by The Conference Board of Canada’s Centre for Food in Canada in collaboration with the University of Guelph’s Food Institute.
Highlights:
- Canada and Ireland followed by France earned top grades among 17 OECD countries in an overall ranking of food safety performance
- Sixty-seven per cent of Canadians believe their food to be safer than it was five years ago
- The report evaluates food safety using ten food safety indicators organized in three food safety risk governance domains
“Given that our economy is more globalized than ever, understanding other food safety regimes is critical moving forward,” according to the reports co-author Dr. Sylvain Charlebois of the University of Guelph’s Food Institute. “Increasingly, more food regulators around the world will compel industry to become more accountable to consumers in order to better mitigate systemic risks.”
The report identifies and evaluates selected common elements among global food safety systems. It provides an overall world ranking of food safety performance for 17 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries illustrated by 10 indicators organized across three food safety risk governance domains: assessment, management and communication.
This publication is available for free on The Conference Board of Canada website.
