Challenge and Innovation on Formulation and Implementation Standard for Agricultural Based Product in new Normal toward Global Food Security

Abstract

The agriculture and food sector has a strategic position for most countries in the world, including Indonesia. These sectors serve a variety of functions and deliver numerous economic, social, and environmental co-benefits. The most fundamental purpose of these sectors is to ensure food security, providing employment, supplying healthy and high-quality food, and facilitating business integration between small and medium enterprises. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted various activities from production, processing, distribution, and consumption. To overcome this situation, a number of appropriate activities have been done and some appropriate plans in the middle-long term. In line with that, the opportunities to make an innovation are open based on the lesson learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper describes the opportunity for innovation and the role of standardization recovery of food security and food safety. Acceleration of formulation standard and its implementation. Key factors affected in the formulation of standards are identified with regard to the recent situation. Change in b business process for stakeholder service-related certification, accreditation, calibration in metrology was also reported. Moreover, the national system of standardization and conformity assessment in connection with the global platform was also discussed including the role of standardization World Trade Organization (WTO). The method used in this review is descriptive-analytic based on literature studies from several scientific journals, publications released by international organizations, associations, and government policy.