Introduction: Coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) leaves wide-ranging and catastrophic effects at normal ways of living, has disturbed the global food supply chain, and have a damaging impact on food security as well. Food industry and the government come together and played vital role to ensure that the food sector should remain open for consistent and unhindered production of food, so consumers have continued access to safe, healthy, and nutritious food during this pandemic. The outbreak of the coronavirus brings unprecedented challenges and affecting the entire food system and beyond. Border Closures, Trade Restrictions, Economic Shutdowns, Isolations and Contact Restrictions, disrupting in domestic and international food supply chains, reducing access to healthy, safe, and diverse diets led towards strict food regulations and policies and urges the global food regulators to formulate new food regulations and policies to combat the challenging pandemic situations and to ensure food safety at all levels in food supply chain.
Purpose: The purpose of study was to focus on how immediately food regulatory authorities responded and took initiatives during pandemic, formulated regulations, developed precautionary measures, enforced specific standard operating procedures and best practices for the food sector to keep them safe and health.
Methods: In present study the data was collected from all prestigious food regulatory authorities by studying published articles, policies, instructions, guidelines, and available resources to search about emerging food regulations.
Results: Results of this study showed that food regulatory authorities’ response on pandemic was so robust that were continuously updating the information’s and guidelines for food sector staff trainings, cleaning and sanitizations, covid-19 mitigation protocols, employee’s health and control, personnel hygiene, managing operations in food sector and sources and transmission routes.
Significance: This study is quite helpful for food service, retail, food manufacturing and for catering and hospitality sector to get aware about current and updated food regulations which emerged during pandemic to limit the spread of coronavirus and which are now mandatory to implement and enforcement agencies have heavy penalty in case of violations.
Keywords: Global food regulations, Regulatory authorities, Pandemic and enforcement