Protection and culture of food safety, ensuring their authenticity, preventing fraud, legal liability of market operators in Ukraine and the EU

Abstract

In today's conditions of globalization of food markets and complexity of supply chains, the formation of a food safety culture as a systemic element of food safety management is of key importance. Unlike classical control tools (HACCP, GMP, GHP), safety culture is focused not only on formal procedures, but also on the values, behavior and responsibility of market operators' personnel [1]. The European Union has for the first time legislated the concept of food safety culture in Regulation (EU) № 2021/382, which amended Regulation (EC) № 852/2004 [2]. According to these provisions, food business operators are required not only to implement safety management systems, but also to demonstrate the active involvement of management in the formation of a safety culture, to ensure staff training and proper risk communication.