  Recently, along with the emergence of food scandals, food supply chains have
to face with ever-increasing pressure from compliance with food quality and
safety regulations and standards. This paper aims to explore critical factors
of compliance risk in food supply chain with an illustrated case in Vietnamese
seafood industry. To this end, this study takes advantage of both primary and
secondary data sources through a comprehensive literature research of
industrial and scientific papers, combined with expert interview. Findings
showed that there are three main critical factor groups influencing on
compliance risk including challenges originating from Vietnamese food supply
chain itself, characteristics of regulation and standards, and business
environment. Furthermore, author proposed enablers to eliminate compliance
risks to food supply chain managers as well as recommendations to government
and other influencers and supporters.
