**2. Responsibility of food safety**

The responsibility of the control of food safety worldwide is shared between several different agencies and ministries of the same country. The roles and responsibilities of these bodies may be quite different but most of the time can be considered as a kind of duplication of the same regulatory activity where unnecessary routine inspection visits and a lack of coordination are common. Moreover, the expertise and resources of these different agencies are varied, which can create a conflict between the responsibilities for protecting public health and obligations toward either facilitating trade or developing an industry or a sector.
