Food safety as one of the main safety preoccupations of a modern man

Abstract

Industrialization, agricultural production and use of hormones, additives, pesticides, and like have influenced the increase in customers' dissatisfaction, leading to loss of their confidence in institutions responsible for food safety control. It resulted in changes and adoption of more stringent legal regulations that followed the concept "from farm to fork" at the level of the European Union and the Republic of Serbia. It puts the emphasis on consumers and their right to have important facts for the proper selection of products (food) at their disposal. Consequently, the international standards which ensure the quality and safety of food are being developed. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyze food safety from the aspect of modern man through the methodological and theoretical framework. Analysis method will explain terms related to the food safety, while the normative method will be used to see legislation regulating the studying matter of food safety and consumer protection in the European Union and the Republic of Serbia, and the obtained results will be compared and summarized through comparative method.

Instruments of support in promotion of healthy food and food safety culture

“…Food safety in the narrow sense can be defined as the absence of risk in food, while in the broader sense, it can include nutritional characteristics and information about the unknown properties of food such as possible genetically modified food and the like (Bjelajac et al, 2017). This paper is focused on the broader sense of the previous definition since we primarily discuss food considered unhealthy without being contaminated, meaning it is unhealthy due to the disbalance of energy and nutrients.…”

“…The authors of this paper conducted research with the goal of determining the perception of dietary choices in adolescents. The research 4 was conducted with students of eight elementary schools and high schools in Belgrade and Novi Sad in period from September 1 st , 2019 to December 20 th , 2019. The research was conducted by the authors with associates.…”