“…Private standards, such as the BRC Standard, IFS‐Food, GLOBALG.A.P, SQF, and the Foundation for Food Safety Certification, (FSCC2000), have been widely adopted by the European food industry (Herzfeld, Drescher, & Grebitus, ; Schulze et al., ; Spadoni et al., ), and beyond at a global scale (Herzfeld et al., ). Particularly in emerging countries with poor institutions and legal frameworks (Henson & Humprey, ), private standards can support design and operation of FSMS and create access to global markets (for example, Kirezieva et al., , ; Kussaga, Luning, Tiisekwa, & Jacxsens, ; Nanyunja et al., ) or address the governance void for organizations seeking to extend their operation to those countries. The interplay between regulation and private food standards with regulation evolving from a “one size fits all” to risk‐based regulation is leading to a hybridization of food governance between public and private instruments (Verbruggen & Havinga, ), which impacts FSMS design and operation (Kirezieva & Luning, ).…”