Food safety perspectives in Costa Rica

In Costa Rica, the agri-food sector is a major provider of jobs, income and export earnings. Since 1997, under pressure from food safety agencies in the United States of America, Costa Rica's main export market, the government and the country's large-scale export-oriented industries have been undergoing major efforts to ensure compliance with new, stricter standards on fresh produce. While these efforts have been crowned with success, much remains to be done to ensure a safer food supply to the local market. Most of these suppliers are small and medium-scale enterprises, who have weak management systems and often poor technologies, and who cannot afford the investments required to introduce sophisticated quality control systems such as full-scale HACCP. Nevertheless, three recent examples from the fresh produce sector show how collaborative efforts between the public sector, the university and the private sector can raise quality for the local market.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Kopper, G.
Format:	conference_item biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	CIRAD
Subjects:	Q03 - Contamination et toxicologie alimentaires, hygiène des aliments, secteur agroindustriel, norme, produit alimentaire, petite entreprise, fruits, légume, coopération, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3019, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_208, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7367, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3032, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_15519, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3131, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8174, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1855, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1920,
Online Access:	http://agritrop.cirad.fr/514097/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/514097/1/ID514097.pdf
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