Summary
Food Standards Scotland’s Strategy to 2026 sets out a vision for a safe, healthy and sustainable food environment that benefits and protects the health and well-being of everyone in Scotland. Three of the priority outcomes are:
- food is safe and authentic
- responsible food businesses are able to thrive
- FSS is trusted and influential
Food crime prevention is crucial to this strategy. Its application is the attempt to prevent, reduce and deter crime and criminals impacting on the food supply chain. It creates the opportunity to develop an approach to food crime and criminals which encourages an emphasis on proactivity towards identifying vulnerabilities and learning so as to reduce crime occurrence or re-occurrence. Part of this will be identifying areas for improvement through analysis of information from a variety of sources that then allows preventative measures to be established and implemented, enabling food businesses to consider target hardening and other techniques to thrive.
FSS's long term goal is to have a process that will enable effective and efficient analysis of information which will inform FSS and partner proactive prevention activity with an emphasis on protecting consumers and helping food businesses reduce their vulnerability to food crime.
