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 FAO's Food
Quality and Standards Service (AGNS) launches its new
website
The Food Quality and
Standard's Service (AGNS) is pleased to announce the launch of our
its new website:
www.fao.org/ag/agn/agns.
As part of our
ongoing commitment to improve communications and meet the food
safety and quality information requirements of FAO's Member
Countries and our food safety and quality partners worldwide, AGNS
has redesigned and updated the content of its website. This
extensive work was necessary to both improve the visibility of AGNS'
work in the field of food safety and quality and to ensure that our
core audiences and beneficiaries have the opportunity to access
relevant and recent food safety and quality publications and
information online through a more accessible and user-friendly
website.
→ Email AGNS-webmaster@fao.org to
leave feedback and suggestions, and to report any
errors.
FAO/WHO
framework for the provision of scientific advice on food safety and
nutrition
FAO and WHO provide a
neutral, international forum for scientific discussions related to
food safety and nutrition. The framework for the provision of
scientific advice is an important tool in the ongoing strengthening
of the independence, transparency and quality of the provision of
scientific advice as it outlines the principles, practices and
procedures currently applied by FAO and WHO. The framework document
is now final, and FAO and WHO would like to thank all those who
provided comments during the public consultation period between
October 2006 and January 2007.
→ Download… [pdf 419kb]
Impact evaluation of the FAO/WHO Global Fora of Food
Safety Regulators
The English version of
the report of a survey to evaluate the impact of the FAO/WHO Global
Fora of Food Safety Regulators is now available. Arabic, French and
Spanish versions will also be available shortly, and can be
requested by emailing food-quality@fao.org. The
report will be discussed during an informal meeting to be held
during the next session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission in
July.
→ Download English version… [pdf 212kb]
→ Download Arabic version… [pdf 288kb]
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Forthcoming
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Announcements |
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 68th JECFA
session (Food additives and contaminants)
Geneva, Switzerland,
19-28 June 2007
The complete list (and
supplements) of substances scheduled for evaluation and the request
for data for evaluation by this meeting are now available
online:
→ Second
supplement (including the final list of flavouring substances, i.e.
the list in the original call for data is no longer valid). Download... [pdf 39kb]
→ First
supplement. Download... [pdf 82kb]
→ Original
list of substances scheduled for evaluation and request for data. Download... [pdf 170kb]
Executive Committee of the Codex Alimentarius
Commission
59th Session, Rome, Italy, 26-30 June 2007
The provisional agenda
and working documents for this and all other forthcoming Codex
meetings are now available.
→ Read more...
Codex
Alimentarius Commission – Side Events
30th Session, Rome, Italy,
2-7 July 2007
The 30th Session of
the Codex Alimentarius Commission will be held between 2 and 7 July
2007 at FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy. Plenary sessions of the
Commission will be held from 2 to 5 July, with the adoption of the
report on 7 July. A number of side events open to all members and
observers are scheduled for 6 July, as follows:
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Event |
6 July 2007
09:30-11:30
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Austria Room
Building C,
2nd
Floor, C-237
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Seminar on Searching Codex-related Information
and Overview of eLearning Tool on Enhancing Participation in
Codex |
6 July 2007
09:30-17:30
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India Room
Building C,
3rd
Floor, A-327
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Workshop on Facilitating Negotiation |
6 July 2007
11:30-12:30
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Austria Room
Building C,
2nd
Floor, C-237
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Informal Meeting on the Proposed 3rd Global
Forum of Food Safety Regulators |
6 July 2007
14:30-16:00
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Plenary Hall
Building A,
3rd
Floor
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Informal Meeting on the FAO/WHO Project and Fund
for Enhanced Participation in Codex |
6 July 2007
16:00-17:30
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Plenary Hall
Building A,
3rd
Floor
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Informal Meeting on the Provision of Scientific
Advice and its Sustainable Funding by FAO and
WHO |
Simultaneous interpretation for
these events will be provided in Arabic, English, French and
Spanish.
FAO/IAEA training workshop -
'Introduction to screening and confirmatory methodology for
veterinary drug residues'
Seibersdorf, Austria, 12-30 November
2007
A training workshop,
‘Introduction to screening and confirmatory methodology for
veterinary drug residues’ will be held at the FAO/IAEA laboratories
at Seibersdorf, Austria from 12-30 November 2007.
The
objectives of this course are to strengthen the awareness of
scientists and laboratory middle-management of the relevant
guidelines and regulations and the theoretical and technical aspects
of screening and confirmatory methods for the detection of
veterinary drug residues; to introduce the quality assurance/quality
control principles according to ISO Standard 17025 that are relevant
to veterinary drug residue analysis; and to discuss the various
possible roles of quality assured laboratories in monitoring the
effectiveness of good farming practices. The deadline for submitting
the application dossier is 1 July 2007.
→ Email for further
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Joint FAO/WHO/OIE expert
meeting on critically important antimicrobials
Rome, Italy, 17-21
September 2007
In response of the
request made by the 53rd Session of the Executive Committee of the
Codex Alimentarius Commission, FAO, WHO and OIE have implemented a
series of meetings to address scientific and managerial aspects of
antimicrobial resistance in food. The objectives of the next expert
meeting are to: find an appropriate balance between animal health
needs and public health considerations; identify, as far as
feasible, the current and potential hazards to public health;
identify priority combinations of human-pathogen-antimicrobial use
and animal species, review current management strategies and options
for maintaining the efficacy of critically important antimicrobials
for humans and animals and provide recommendations on future FAO,
WHO and OIE activities.
FAO, WHO and OIE are seeking
candidates to participate in this meeting. The deadline for
submission of CVs of experts and the presentation of data is 16 June
2007.
→ Download the calls for experts and data... [pdf
46kb]
Additional information can also be obtained from the
following websites:
→ FAO Food Quality and Standards Service, Antimicrobial
resistance in micro-organisms
→ OIE International Meetings
→ WHO Foodborne Disease Surveillance
FAO/BIOTEC expert peer review meeting – 'GM food safety
assessment training-of-trainers tool'
Bangkok, Thailand, 23-25
May 2007
FAO, in collaboration
with the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
(BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency
(NSTDA), Ministry of Science and Technology, Thailand, organized a
three-day expert meeting to peer review the newly developed
Training-of-Trainers Tool on GM Food Safety Assessment. The main
objectives of the meeting were to review the materials, to suggest
possible improvements and to finalize the tool for publication.
→ For more
information please email food-quality@fao.org
 FAO/WHO Informal meeting – ‘Risk benefit of fish
consumption’
Rome, Italy 29-30 May 2007
TFAO and WHO invited a
small group of experts to Rome between 29-30 May 2007 to discuss
approaches to the assessment of the risks and benefits of seafood.
These discussions were intended to provide background information to
FAO and WHO in order to respond to the request of the Codex
Alimentarius Commission to organize an FAO/WHO Expert Consultation
on the Risks and Benefits of Fish Consumption in 2008.
The
terms of this request are contained in the the report of the
Twenty-ninth Session of the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme,
Codex Alimentarius Commission, Geneva, Switzerland, 3-7 July 2006. A
note of the meeting will shortly be posted on the AGNS website.
→ Click here for more information....
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