آلاینده و آینده صادرات محصولات کشاورزی

Food security refers to the access of all members of a society to sufficient and healthy food for a healthy and active life. Providing safe food with good quality is necessary for human survival and quality of life. The food should not endanger the health of the consumer due to the presence of physical, biological and chemical pollutants. Contaminants in food products are compounds that are harmful to human health, which may come from packaging materials, production lines, contaminated water, fossil fuels, radioactive components, toxic metabolites of microorganisms, residues of chemicals used in agriculture, and pharmaceutical compounds prescribed to livestock. Livestock and poultry or added to their feed should be introduced into the food. Concerns created in the field of food safety will cause the loss of consumer confidence and create long-term harmful effects for exporting countries. Because it takes a lot of time to restore consumer confidence. Based on this, reference standards were created to coordinate food safety. International organizations such as FAO, WHO, Codex, ISO are making serious efforts to harmonize national laws. Compliance with the export standards of agricultural products and food codex standards and valid and customary international certificates in the food industry is mandatory for export to most countries of the world. The European Union has submitted a draft regulation to the World Trade Organization that sets the maximum permitted level of ochratoxin A in ready-to-eat pistachios at 5 ng/g and also reduces its maximum level in raisins from 10 to 8 ng/g or it determines the maximum allowed hydrocyanic acid in a product such as almonds to be 35 ng/g. These regulations will apply from January 1, 2023. The new laws in the European Union regarding the mandatory testing of ochratoxin in pistachios or pyrrolizidine alkaloids in tea, cumin, liquorices, medicinal plants, etc. cause the imposition of international regulations and the lack of import permits for the export products. Therefore, before any action by other countries, it is necessary to obtain the necessary knowledge about various and new emerging pollutants in food chains and in international frameworks of risk analysis in order to facilitate the export of agricultural products and take serious approach to facilitate organic agriculture as well as The European Union decision for 25% Organic in 2030.