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The Business Case for Food Chain Transparency
Food has never been safer or better controlled but we may be just one bite away from the next food crisis (1). Industry experts, government scientists and scholars concur that food safety should be both non-competitive and non-negotiable (2). Extending beyond food safety, the world is facing significant health problems and socioeconomic burdens that are impacted by food chain transparency, or the lack thereof. An example of this is the global antibiotic resistance crisis (3). While partly due to human misuse, the overuse of antibiotics in animal production compromises the treatment of infectious diseases in humans and undermines decades of medical advances, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Other global concerns include