Food Safety = Culture Science + Social Science + Food Science
Food safety culture works at the intersection of food science, organizational culture, and social cognitive science.
The interactions between traditional food sciences, including food safety, and the sociocultural sciences to determine what food safety culture is need to be understood and how it can be measured and improved.
Although everybody is talking about it, food safety culture is a relatively new concept for the food industry, and it is useful to look back at food safety assurance developments in recent history to understand our route into food safety culture and why it is so important today. In this article, the authors will consider how thinking in food safety culture has developed and how blending the food and sociocultural sciences together helps us improve food safety performance.