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FOOD SAFETY AND QUALITY SERIES

On many areas of seafood there are specialist reports that are well researched. Our role is to make you, the consumer, aware of the major issues so this section of our website is dedicated to connecting you to these

HILDA Report 2025

HILDA Report 2025 & The Power of Seafood Consumption for Australian Wellbeing

Codex Report

Codex Strategic Plan 2020–2025

Overview of Key Feed Production and Insights

Aquaculture is a fast-growing sector of livestock production but has attracted criticism

SAFEFISH

Ready to Eat Seafood - Food Safety in SSL RTE Seafood Summary 2021

Ready to Eat Seafood - Listeria in RTE Seafood: Current Control and Risk Management

Ready to Eat Seafood - Listeria Fact Sheet

Fact Sheets - Food Safety Fact Sheets

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This collection comprises FAO’s formal publications

Country Briefs

(snapshot of production, trade and other data for fisheries and aquaculture products by country or territory)

Risks & Benefits of Eating Seafood

Risks & Benefits of Eating Seafood FAO & WHO. 2024. FAO & WHO. 2024. FAO/WHO Background Document on the Risks and Benefits of Fish Consumption

FAO & WHO. 2024. Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on the Risks and Benefits of Fish Consumption: Meeting report, Rome, 9–13 October 2023

Food safety regulations for fisheries and aquaculture products

(This page provides a summary of regulatory frameworks and legislation in force in a variety of countries and regions, to facilitate international trade of fisheries and aquaculture products and ease the exporting and importing processes.)

Food Safety Specifics

FAO & WHO. 2016. Risk communication applied to food safety, handbook

FAO. 2016. Enhancing early warning capabilities and capacities for food safety

FAO. 2017. Food safety risk management: evidence-informed policies and decisions, considering multiple factors

FAO & WHO. 2020. Report of the expert meeting on ciguatera poisoning

FAO. 2020. FAO guide to ranking food safety risks at the national level

FAO. 2023. The impact of pesticide residues on the gut microbiome and human health – A food safety perspective

FAO. 2023. The impact of veterinary drug residues on the gut microbiome and human health – A food safety perspective

FAO & WHO. 2023. Food safety implications from the use of environmental inhibitors in agrifood systems

Food Allergens

FAO & WHO. 2022. Risk assessment of food allergens. Part 1: Review and validation of Codex Alimentarius priority allergen list through risk assessment

FAO & WHO. 2022. Risk assessment of food allergens. Part 2: Review and establish threshold levels in foods for the priority allergens

FAO & WHO. 2023. Risk assessment of food allergens – Part 3: Review and establish precautionary labelling in foods of the priority allergens

FAO & WHO. 2024. Risk assessment of food allergens – Part 4: Establishing exemptions from mandatory declaration for priority food allergens

FAO & WHO. 2023. Risk assessment of food allergens. Part 5: Review and establish threshold levels for specific tree nuts (Brazil nut, macadamia nut or Queensland nut, pine nut), soy, celery, lupin, mustard, buckwheat and oats

Climate Change

FAO. 2020. Climate change: unpacking the burden on food safety

Microplastics

FAO. 2022. Microplastics in food commodities – A food safety review on human exposure through dietary sources

FAO. 2023. The impact of microplastics on the gut microbiome and health – A food safety perspective

Food safety regulations for bivalve molluscs

This page provides a summary of regulatory frameworks and legislation in force in a variety of countries and regions to facilitate international trade of bivalve mollusc and ease the exporting and importing processes.

Shellfish Sanitation Specifics

FAO & WHO. 2018. Technical guidance for the development of the growing area aspects of bivalve mollusc sanitation programmes

FAO & WHO. 2021. Technical guidance for the development of the growing area aspects of bivalve mollusc sanitation programmes. Second edition

Food Control

Import notifications for fisheries and aquaculture products

This page contains information about import notifications in the European Union, Japan, and the United States of America from 2016.

Food Control

FAO. 2016. Risk based imported food control, manual

FAO & WHO. 2019. Food control system assessment tool > Introduction and glossary

FAO & WHO. 2019. Food control system assessment tool > Dimension A – Inputs and resources

FAO & WHO. 2019. Food control system assessment tool > Dimension B - Control functions

FAO & WHO. 2019. Food control system assessment tool > Dimension C - Interaction with stakeholders

FAO & WHO. 2019. Food control system assessment tool > Dimension D - Science/knowledge base and continuous improvement

FAO. 2022. Technical guidance for the implementation of e-notification systems for food control