The Importance of Food Inspection
Food Inspection
Food inspection is a mechanism that ensures the safety of food from the farm to the home table. Food inspection is carried out and is essential for monitoring any disruptions and health-damaging effects that may occur at every moment and instant during the stages of healthy product development from seed to fruit in the field, during product harvesting, storage, and distribution. If food inspection is not carried out by expert individuals who understand this business, then neither safe food nor food safety can be spoken of.
Food Inspection in Our Country
Food inspection in our country is not at a sufficient level. If the state does not place the issue of safe food on the table, examine and discuss it within the framework of logic, and leaves it to non-expert individuals, then food inspection cannot be considered. Due to wrong policies in our country, food inspections are carried out by agricultural engineers and veterinarians within the state structure. This does not grant rights to food engineers who have studied for four years for this field and hinders them from doing their jobs. Municipalities also have food inspections carried out by a group of men unrelated to food, which is called the police force. In such a situation, it is not surprising that smuggled meats and many other fraudulent foods are circulating in public and even in our homes…