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- In an address to the European Federation of Food Science and Technology, Aleksandra Martinovic, ambassador of the Global Harmonization Initiative, called for the standardization of food safety regulations in order to eliminate unnecessary wastages.
- These wastages include the removal and disposal of foods that passed inspection in one country, only to be barred from another due to differences in contamination and additive legislation.
- Millions of dollars and thousands of tons of food are wasted every year because of these discrepancies, a loophole that Martinovic hopes to close.
From the article:
Zero and very low tolerance of certain food additives and ingredients can lead to enormous - and entirely unnecessary - food wastage, according to Aleksandra Martinovic, Montenegro ambassador of the Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI).
