GENEVA—A recent Reuters article took an in-depth look at how smaller business are finding it increasingly difficult to compete on a global scale with larger companies on the issue of food safety.
Citing a report to be released at news week’s meeting in Rome of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO) study said producers, processors and exporters in developing states were struggling to cope with new and overlapping requirements.
"To the extent that there are economies of scale in compliance and/or larger firms are better able to access finance and other resources, compliance processes are likely to induce processes of consolidation and concentration," said the study.