• Socio-psychological framing of consumer perceptions and knowledge about food safety, highlighting how media coverage, demographics, and risk cognition shape risk judgments and protective behaviors across diverse populations [1], [6], [8], [16].

• Development and validation of standardized instruments to measure consumer food safety knowledge and practices; employing Rasch scales, PCA/HCA clustering, and pre/post training assessments to enable targeted education [10], [12], [16], [14].

• Surveillance-driven risk attribution and outbreak investigations spanning national networks and expert elicitation to map illnesses to foods and settings, informing prevention strategies [19], [5], [18], [3], [13].

• Interventions to elevate domestic and institutional food-safety practices, including HACCP adoption, safety knowledge instrument development, and training impact assessments across workplaces and homes [10], [17], [14], [12].

• Regulatory frameworks and international trade considerations shape food safety policy, emphasizing scientific criteria, SPS measures, and cross-border risk management for safe foods [2], [20], [4].