A significant proportion of food quality and food safety issues that affect public health can be linked to food hygiene practices and the environment in which the food is produced, processed, transported, stored and prepared for final consumption.  Poor food quality and food safety management practices by the organization may lead to low quality and unsafe food production where there is the high potential of food contamination.  With the implementation of proper food quality systems such as ISO 9001, Good Manufacturing Practice and other food safety systems such as MS 1480 - Food Safety According to Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) System and ISO 22000 - Food Safety Management System, the risk of producing poor quality and unsafe food would be much reduced.  With the implementation of these standards, organizations along the food chain would be consistently producing high quality and safe food covering from "farm to fork" for the consumers irrespective of their age group and food preferences.  Food production has wide ecological and environmental, as well as economic implications. Sustainable development is important to the health and well-being of Malaysians.  The close links between the economy, our environment, and health mean that all three needs to be integrated into any decision-making process that seeks to ecologically sustainable.  Consumers are becoming increasingly concerned about the ecological aspects of the food they purchase.  

With the implementation of a sound environmental management system such as ISO 14001, food industries would be able to satisfy and meet the consumers' concerns and demands for safe, healthy food through sustainable agricultural practices.  Having a workforce that has undergone training on the hygienic production of safe and quality food is inadequate if the workplace is unsafe and there is a high risk of accidents occurring causing injury to the workforce.  These accidents on the workforce would cause contamination to the production of food.  By implementing an occupational health and safety management system such as OHSAS 18001, the risk of accidents and injury to the workplace would be very much reduced as the workplace is now safe and conducive to the production of safe and quality food.  In this globalization era, the world has become a smaller place whereby fruits of food only grown and sold in Europe has now found their way in the Malaysian hypermarkets and retailed markets.  Consumers now have a wider choice in their selection of purchase and their preference of choice are on food that has attestations of quality and safety such as product certification mark would be the preferential choice by the consumers.