Towards Safer Global Food Supply Chains: A Comparative Analysis of Regulatory Requirements

Implementing a food safety management system (FSMS) is a regulatory requirement for every firm in global food supply chains. At any scale, it could be influenced by many factors since the global food supply chains consist of a large number of stakeholders involved with an enormous variety of structures, the logistics of which will undoubtedly change rapidly, scale-up and diversify continuously.

This book contains five chapters that aim to give an in-depth exploration of critical success factors (CSF) for food safety management in global supply chains. To fill the identified research gaps, the authors present empirical evidence from their research to verify critical success factors and their relationships with FSMS. Furthermore, the impact of supplier selection and supply chain relationships on food safety management in global supply chains are explored to identify Best Practice in FSMS implementation. This book will appeal to scholars working in food safety management, supply chain management and the impact of globalisation.

Tram T. B. Nguyen is Head of the Supply Chain Management Department at Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Vietnam. She received her PhD degree from University of Liverpool, UK in 2019. Her works on food safety management in food productions have been presented at EurOMA conferences as well as published in ISI/Scopus indexed journals. Her research interests are related to food safety management, innovation and sustainability of supply chains management.

Dong Li is a Reader in Operations and Supply Chain Management at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is a well-established researcher in sustainability and food supply chain research. His research has been published in internationally leading journals in his area and has been awarded over one million pounds as a research project leader by UK and European funding bodies. He has been an active researcher in book publishing, keynote speech and guest editing.