Food safety in itself is important but it also has wider significance beyond the immediate khinkali dripping juice onto your lap. Issues involving food security, agriculture policy, import substitution, export markets and free trade are implicitly tied up with the standards in place (or not) to ensure our khinkali are safe. This report – in trying to assess Georgian commitments to implement European-style food safety standards made under the European Neighbourhood Policy Action Plan – therefore goes well beyond the question of food safety per se. Indeed, food safety standards have much to do with the actual food we eat, but they also are seen as but one of what Eurocrats call “regional trade and economic integration aspects.” It is in this light that this report is presented.