20.500.12556/RUL-180743 Modern food systems challenged by food safety culture Despite decades of regulatory development, standardized food safety management systems, and technological advances, foodborne outbreaks, recalls, and food fraud continue to pose significant public health and societal challenges. These persistent failures increasingly reveal systemic vulnerabilities that deficiencies in legislation or formal control mechanisms alone cannot explain. Instead, they highlight the critical role of human behaviour, organizational culture, and socio-technical interactions within modern, complex agrifood networks. Food safety culture has therefore emerged as a key determinant of food safety performance, linking regulatory frameworks with everyday practices in food establishments. While HACCP-based systems clearly define procedures and responsibilities, their effectiveness is limited when behavioural consistency, leadership commitment, communication, and resource availability are weak. Research consistently shows that even well-designed systems are insufficiently monitored when organizational alignment and behavioural adherence are lacking, allowing deviations from safe practices to persist. Contemporary approaches move beyond compliance-driven models towards cultural transformation, emphasizing leadership engagement, effective risk communication, learning-oriented environments, and evidence-based behavioural interventions. Increasingly, digital tools and real-time monitoring systems support this transition by strengthening feedback, transparency, and adaptive risk management across food systems. Strengthening food safety culture therefore requires coordinated, multi-level action that integrates governance, technology and human-oriented approaches. Such transformation is essential not only for improving food safety outcomes but also for protecting public health, maintaining consumer trust and enhancing the long-term resilience and sustainability of modern food systems. food safety human factor food safety culture human behaviour food systems good practices true false true Angleški jezik Ni določen Članek v reviji 2026-03-16 11:33:02 2026-03-16 11:33:04 2026-03-17 04:47:24 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 81-96 no. 1 Vol. 64 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-01-01 614.31 1330-9862 10.17113/ftb.64.01.26.9508 271773443 FTB-64-81.pdf FTB-64-81.pdf 1 74F76F08035C6E35FA9F5FF86D1F07D2 d2089c64f46e54687246292d6e2e14ab267465fffd6d5abfd08a56570f5efe26 ac803e89-2123-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=230517 https://ftb.com.hr/archives/1983-modern-food-systems-challenged-by-food-safety-culture 1 77ce0075-2123-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=230516 Zdravstvena fakulteta 0 0 0