Western Pacific Regional Food Safety Strategy (2011-2015) Risk-
based regulatory frameworks Collaboration of all stakeholders
along the food chain continuum is essential to ensure a
comprehensive and integrated approach to safe and healthy food.
The primary responsibility for the production of safe food is
that of food businesses. Each food business must ensure that
control systems are in place to prevent, eliminate or reduce
risks to consumers to acceptable levels at all stages of the
food chain continuum for which they have responsibility, and
that legislative requirements are met by such systems. To
complement and support the efforts of food businesses, national
governments must organize and implement adequate and effective
regulatory frameworks. Regulatory frameworks include: - primary
legislation that includes definitions, roles and
responsibilities, and also the principles of food control; -
food regulations and standards that define the rules that
regulate the production, processing, storage, distributi