FOOD QUALITY SYSTEMS IN TURKEY: PERSPECTIVESIN TERMS OF FOOD DEFENCE

摘要

The chapter summarizes the current food quality systems inTurkey from the perspective of food defense. Recently Turkey has formallyadopted a number of typical elements of food safety regulations and controlsystems in the accession period to EU and there are developments dealing withfood safety and a few available empirical analyses of food safety applicationsin Turkey, but still there is a lack of comprehensive study summarizing theefforts. The developments that signal some of the more formal approaches todeal with food defense are shared and a few examples of food safety appli-cations in Turkey are mentioned together with discussing issues about foodquality. The policies supported for food safety and security, current situation,related legislations are used to provide information as current indicators.On the other hand food defense is a vital and relevantly "hot" topic as allsocieties are crucially dependent upon the food supply; therefore, its disruptionis an obvious prime target for terrorism.