Food Quality Regulation in Ethiopia
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2010-01
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Ensuring an acceptable level of food quality and safety is necessary to provide adequate
protection for consumers and to enhance economic development through the facilitation
of fair practice in food trade. These objectives can be achieved by implementing and
monitoring quality assurance measures along the entire food chain from production
through to consumption. Everyone involved in food quality assurance system from
farmer to the consumer is expected to shares in the responsibilities of ensuring the supply
of good quality and safe food to the domestic consumers and foreign markets.
In this regard, the study tries to point out the legal and institutional problems related
with domestically produced, exported and imported foods in Ethiopia. In addition
techniques and instruments employed as well the means used to enforce the food quality
regulation to assure the supply of safe and of good quality food has also been the subject
of this study. Accordingly the study demonstrates that although food establishments, in
Ethiopia, are rapidly increasing and their role in the economy of the country is also
considerable, food quality regulatory system, however, is not keep pace with the
contemporary food quality and safety assurance system. The Outdated and fragmented
food related laws and inadequate Coordination among government regulatory bodies
involved in the activities brought about practical problems in assuring the quality and
safety of food supplied to domestic consumers and foreign markets.
At the end, the thesis tries to recommend that the laws should be updated and made
comprehensive in a way it match international standards and the institution that
coordinate the activities of all stakeholders need to be established so as to rectify the
existing problems.
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Ensuring an acceptable, level of food quality and safety, is necessary to provide adequate