The Food safety program takes up the Human Right to Adequate Food as a new building block for sustainability standards and certification schemes. It provides practicable and measurable food security criteria for all kind of traded agricultural products. The FS represents a best-practice set to ensure that the Right to Food is not violated at local level when producing and trading certified biomass.

A food safety program is a written plan that shows what a business does to ensure that the food it sells is safe for people to eat. It is an important tool to help businesses handle, process or sell potentially hazardous foods. This is necessary to maintain safe food handling practices and protect public health.