Blue Paper
Food Safety Trends, Key Issues & Perspectives
Blue Paper provides key food safety data for the most relevant food categories and contaminants, including emerging risks, to help stakeholders, decision-makers and their teams to:
- have a better understanding of food-related health issues
- enhance the vision of current and future food safety challenges
- take decisions on the daily work for risk assessment & risk management
What is the Blue Paper?
The Blue Paper is an initiative launched by Mérieux NutriSciences in 2016 with a simple goal: providing food safety trends, key issues and perspectives to every food companies.
It has become a reference document to-go-to to facilitate decisions you have to make.
- An expert report to monitor emerged & emerging risks and reinforce your food safety risk assessment process, taking into account new sustainability challenges
- More than 150 pages, 6 chapters, 42 focuses on contaminants & food matrices, in an easy way (infographics and mappings)
- Comprehensive analysis of food safety alerts, expected regulations, recent events & official reports, consumer perspectives
A collaborative work addressing reference institutions
Always evolving, this is the document to go to when you have a question regarding your market(s).
The Blue Paper is a yearly document evolving over time thanks to:
- Mérieux NutriSciences’ experts highly involved in local and international organizations
- the feedback of our customers.
Sixth edition of the Blue Paper the reference document on Food Safety Trends, Key issues & Perspectives.
2021 is characterized by the multiple Covid-19 waves and we see the consequences of this pandemia: the resilience of the food chain has been strong to ensure food security in Europe although the supply chain issues are still significant in packaging material availability and food sector workers shortage. We now measure the consequences in terms of food safety: we observed a significant decrease of declared zoonose cases in Europe during that period, partially explained by under-declaration, but also due to limited exchanges and better hygiene.
‘Seventh edition of the Blue Paper, the reference document on ‘Worldwide Food Safety trends and Key issues.’
2022 was marked by the war in Ukraine, which disrupted food security in several parts of the world. This has led to ingredient shortages and global inflation of the prices of all raw materials, which has heavily impacted the food industry and consumers’ food choices. Many food companies had to switch suppliers, substitute some ingredients, and change formulations to adapt to this new context. Thus, understanding the food safety risks associated with each ingredient & the growing emerging topics has become a key part of managing its supply-chain safely.
Furthermore, the growing awareness around ESG topics is also affecting the food sector and urging organizations to commit and take actions. This 7th edition of Blue Paper is giving some keys to better understand the applicable regulatory frameworks around ESG, the main guidelines and some best practices.”
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