One of the recent developments in regard to food safety is the legal change that consumers have a right to be sold safe food and that the primary producer is now part of the process which must guarantee the delivery of safe products

Edited by James J. Sheridan, Ph.D., and Michael O'Keefe, Ph.D., Teagasc, The National Food Center, Dusinea, Castlerock, Dublin 15, Ireland, and Mark Rogers, Ph.D., Department of Zoology, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.