This report was produced with grant support from the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) of the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF).
This report was prepared by the Directorate for Public Governance (GOV), under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director, and Nick Malyshev, Head of the Regulatory Policy Division in GOV.
This report was authored by Florentin Blanc, Senior Policy Analyst, along with Giuseppa Ottimofiore and Camila Saffirio, Policy Analysts, of the Regulatory Policy Division. The first chapter on “food safety challenges, informal markets, and their role in the crisis” was authored by Donald Macrae (consultant). The authors would like to thank Francesco Calisi, Carola Bertone and Hamsini Shankar, consultants, for their support. The report was prepared for publication by Jennifer Stein.
The authors are also thankful to colleagues from within the OECD for their feedback and comments, including Elena Avery and team from the Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Soria Morales Ernesto and Carina Lindberg team from Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (GOV). The authors would also like to thank Peter Wend from Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit and Filippo Castoldi from Servizi Veterinari della Regione Lombardia, Italy for their valuable inputs.