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The Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues (CCPR) plays an important role in enhancing international food safety
24 April 2017
24 April 2017
The 49th Session of Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues (CCPR) opened in Beijing on April 24, 2017. Yu Xinrong, Vice Minister of Ministry of Agriculture, Vincent Martin, FAO Representative to China, and Tom Heilandt, Secretary of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) attended and addressed the opening ceremony.
The session was hosted...
H7N9: Preventing the next SARS
24 March 2017
24 March 2017
Since first appearing in 2013 in China, the number of human cases of H7N9 avian influenza in each of the first four seasonal outbreaks had been steadily declining. With each outbreak, China intensified efforts to monitor and control the virus, working with provincial and local authorities to improve sanitation at...
To celebrate International Women’s Day, Dr Vincent Martin, Representative of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in China, and staff from FAO China visited the “One Square Meter Gardening” project in Hujialou Center Primary School in Beijing on the afternoon of March 8. Ma Jie, principal of the school,...
FAO and WHO in China organised in Beijing the meeting of the United Nations Theme Group on Agriculture(UNTG-AG) – sub working group on Diseases at the Human-animal-environment interface to discuss influenza A(H7N9) disease situation in China. The meeting objective was to provide an update on the influenza A(H7N9) situation in...
Making CFETPV Sustainable – Development of Chinese Trainer Team
13 February 2017
13 February 2017
The CFETPV has made significant progress since it was launched in 2010, by training more than 140 epidemiologists in government agencies all over China. However, it is a quite small number comparing with half million government veterinary staff in the country. There is still a strong need of veterinary epidemiology...