Food Safety and the Coronavirus Pandemic ()
ABSTRACT
Creating safe places and ensuring the safety of society is an important issue that has always been among the classic
tasks of the government. While visible border security has been an important
issue in the past, cyber-attacks, biological weapons or new risks caused by the
nature that cross borders today and have deadly impacts all of which are
difficult to control at the border and threaten security have become prominent
at a global level. We have now become a risk society. The subject of this
article is to methodically examine the relation between safe food and the Coronavirus
which has affected the whole world by threatening the health and quality of
life of humans and animals (fauna). Whether plants (flora) are outside the
scope of this threat is not yet publicly known. In the case of the COVID pandemic,
production activities have almost stopped in many sectors due to human presence
being exposed to the effects of the virus because
of its “coexisting” habit and many people dying from illness or having their
tissues damaged. This shocking unexpected phenomenon, which has moved from the
local to national and then international levels, has shown the need to review
the things we know in terms of sustainability of life and reframe them. This
national and also universal problem of how safe environments and “smart
society” relations should be regulated is an issue that needs to be quickly and
carefully regulated, in the “New World Order of Corona” where such Corona cases
will continue to happen. Briefly, the issue of “health safety” was taken one
step further and examined by taking its relationship with other elements into
consideration. This study will entail both international regulations and examples
in Turkey.
Share and Cite:
Karaman, Z. (2020) Food Safety and the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
8, 334-357. doi:
10.4236/jss.2020.89027.