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New food sources and food production systems: exploring the food safety angle

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 6p.

Author mukherjee, k.; fattori, v.;

Publisher BNP Media ;

Product type Article

Synopsis (short abstract) What is foresight? How does it help our agrifood systems and the global food safety arena? The world we live in is constantly evolving. Keeping pace with these changing global contexts—while continuing to deliver safe and nutritious food for the growing global population—rests on the ability of our agrifood systems to sufficiently anticipate, absorb, and adapt to the changes. In this regard, there are concerted efforts underway to transform agrifood systems to make them more resilient, sustainable, and equitable in the face of the economic, environmental, and social challenges of today and those that may arise.

This document is an author manuscript version of article that has been published externally in Food Safety Magazine June 8, 2022

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