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World trade challenges food safety and quality. This chapter is focused on a deep insight into the performance of potential hazards on food safety and biosecurity associated with foodstuffs. This detailed framework provides definitions, potential risks, prevention, antimicrobial resistance, epidemiology, and the surveillance of each potential hazard associated with agro-chemical and veterinary drug residues, genetically modified organisms, heavy metals, microbial pathogens, naturally occurring toxicants, parasitic organisms, persistent organic pollutants, physical contaminants and adulterants, prions, and zoonotic diseases. Biosecurity aspects are discussed and policy and regulatory frameworks for analyzing and managing relevant health risks, and those associated with the environment. It covers safety and risk management in the food supply chain, traceability and recalls, on-farm biosecurity management and animal hygiene as well as joint risk management tool release of living modified organisms and their products. Furthermore, inherent elements according to a range of economic factors are included on both topics as well. It also provides future challenges on food control and biosecurity.