There were clear policies, guidelines, and legal instruments for the implementation of food safety in (100%) of the six Competent Authorities (CA).  In all the 6 CAs, there were insufficient budgetary allocations for food safety operations. There was no national monitoring program based on risk assessment and food safety surveillance system in 5 of the 6 CAs. The system was simple to operate, flexible, and adaptive to changes but not representative and easily acceptable. The system could not use data to inform new or current risk analysis activities in all CAS, 1 in 6 CAs can identify risk factors and use risk profiles to guide and inform interventions and deployment of resources, no CA-supported preventive approaches to food control and early identification of emerging and critical issues. 
