Food Safety In Asia: Regional Trends And Startups

It goes without saying, providing safe food for consumers is always paramount for the food industry. In Asia, given the region's heterogeneous nature with no single regulatory body, doing this consistently at scale has been and will continue to be an unmet need for the region. Each year, 275 million people in Asia (and the Pacific) fall sick from food, with 225,000 perishing. This equates to roughly half of the global tallies for foodborne illness and death, respectively. Biological hazards, most notably E. coli, norovirus, Salmonella spp., and Campylobacter spp., are frequently to blame, causing 80% of the disease burden in Asia.