Policy Research on Food Safety: A Qualitative Research

Food safety defined as a basis of the development, health sustainability indicator and welfare of the community. In line with the research goals for the accessibility of food safety, the relevant policies should be changed or general policies must be developed. This qualitative research was carried out on the basis of (Ann) Majchrzak Method for policy research as well as semi-structured interviews as a qualitative method of inquiry was used in the present study. Totally, 25 experts on food safety were interviewed about policy research process including policy change wheel in 2017. Also, conducting Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) relies on MAXQDA (2007) method. Findings of the research on the structure of food safety policy were discussed in six categories including transparent and comprehensive policy making as context, community health maintenance (as a phenomenon), the inefficiency of existing policies on food safety as causal conditions, Compilation and implementation of complementary interventions as operational strategies, social empowerment as an intermediary as well as the accessibility of sustainable society. Results show that the process of policy research on food safety is a dynamic, complicated, permanent and correlative concept which is influenced by effective factors on policy making. Furthermore, it is noteworthy that the process of policy research on food safety can be affected by the inefficiency of existing policies on food safety, compilation and implementation of complementary interventions and also social empowerment.