Responsibility for the agency that polices the safety of the country's food supply is moving to Health Canada from Agriculture. The low-key reorganization will place responsibility for the ...

Under the mechanism, both countries should: 1. Inform in a timely manner food safety standards and testing requirements to each other, and provide personnel training and technical assistance. 2.

But food safety has to start at the most basic level with everyone involved in the production process acting with a sense of responsibility to the end user.

China's current system of splitting food safety responsibilities among many different agencies has resulted in uneven enforcement and confusion, the UN said in a report late last year.

Food safety is not merely a concern for producers and suppliers; it extends to every stage of the retail process, from farm to fork.