How Food Safety Relate to Animal and Plant Health?

How Food Safety Relate to Animal and Plant Health?
Food safety differs from animal and plant health in its focus on foodborne hazards to human health.

Usually animal and plant health improvement is tied to enhanced agricultural productivity.

However, there are strong linkages among the three issues.

First, some animal diseases can also be transmitted to humans, so improving animal health is sometimes linked to food safety.

Similarly, some plant diseases or control measures involving pesticides have implications for human health through residues on food.

Second, similar regulatory approach may be used to reduce risks in all three areas so designing public systems to address all three has some economics of scope.

Third, improvements in all three areas may be a prerequisite for entering international trade and thus may need to occur simultaneously.

Fourth, all three fall under the agreement and thus are addressed in the same way in international trade disputes.

These linkages mean that some Bank experience in animal and plant health may provide lessons for investments in food safety.
How Food Safety Relate to Animal and Plant Health?