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GLOBALISATION AND FOOD SAFETY IMPLICATIONS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Ioana Claudia Todirică

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Globalization phenomena is spreading more and more around the world. This has a major impact on food safety as food chains have become increasingly complex. This paper studies the benefits and drawback from a globalization standpoint regarding food safety in the developing countries and aims to find ways that might overcome the challenges consumers deal with. The research is based on data extracted from European Union reports, Eurostat Database, International Trade Centre Database and Romanian National Institute of Statistics. The study presents an overview on foods balance trade in the European Union with emphasis on the developing countries. It can be observed that in the considered period we can notice a high increase in imports and exports especially if we consider foods. In Romania, the exports of raw agricultural materials register an ascendant trend as well as the imports of processed foods. There are two main factors: large manufacturing enterprises disappeared in the last 20 years and the second one is due to the fact that more and more agricultural land is bought by the foreigners, the production is sold on the international market. Even though the globalization process involves all the countries worldwide, the impact is different on each, especially in the type of agriculture they practice due to the fact that the conflict between industrialization and ecological systems is emphasized.

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DOI resolver: doi.org/10.5593/sgem2018/5.3/s28.053

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