The COVID-19 global pandemic highlighted challenges and the need for modern approaches to our food system. This global event showed the need to work to ensure that the food supply chains remain safe and robust, now more than ever.
This document highlights achievable goals to enhance traceability, improve predictive analytics, respond more rapidly to outbreaks, address new business models, reduce food contamination, and foster the development of a food safety culture. It outlines a partnership between government, industry, and public health advocates based on a commitment to creating a more modern approach to food safety. There is an opportunity to drive the changes needed to create a digital and safer food system.