In 1964, at its second session, the Codex Alimentarius Commission established the Coordinating Committee for Europe to succeed the 'European Council of the Codex Alimentarius' and to replace the 'Advisory Group for Europe' set up at its first session in 1963.
The first meeting of the Coordinating Committee for Europe took place in July 1965 in Berne, Switzerland and was attended by 16 countries from the region.
The current coordinator, Germany, is based in the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL).
Germany’s main priorities as coordinator are to:
- reduce barriers to active participation of Members of the region in Codex work;
- increase the awareness of the role of Codex and food safety in general in the transition towards sustainable food systems; and
- promote the use of Codex standards in priority areas such as antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
In addressing these priorities, the coordinator will use synergies from international and regional level activities of the Codex Secretariat, FAO and WHO as well as Codex Observers.
Sustainable Development Goal 2 is about ending hunger, achieving food security and good nutrition, and supporting sustainable agriculture. The purpose of World Food Safety Day celebrations is to raise people's awareness of food safety issues, show how to prevent disease through food safety, discuss collaborative approaches to improved food safety across sectors, and promote solutions and ways to improve food security.
For this purpose, Hasan Polatkan Primary School students in Kayseri province Melikgazi district; Celebrated with the theme of "Safer food, [...]
The Tenerife Quality Observatory has issued an invitation to its conference commemorating World Food Safety Day, which is organized in collaboration with the University of La Laguna and Dinosol Supermarkets.
Its purpose is to raise awareness about the importance of food safety as a shared responsibility for everyone to guarantee safe and sustainable food. The Conference is aimed at professionals from food companies, consumer technicians, consumer associations, professionals from the commercial and retail sectors and consumers in general.
The event will be [...]
The Danish Agriculture and Food Council, together with Food Nation, will be marking World Food Safety Day this year with a webinar that will focus on the theme of plant-based foods.
According to the event website, the strong collaboration between companies and authorities in Denmark is a key reason for the “high quality and safety” of Danish food, and this “gives Danish food companies a unique opportunity to test, develop and innovate their products and solutions early in the development process.” [...]
For the fourth consecutive year, Veraliment is organizing a meeting for professionals in the food sector for World Food Safety Day 2022.
Under the slogan "To protect lives", Veraliment will focus on those organizations and professionals who “put their effort and dedication into helping and protecting lives”. “This,” says Veraliment’s CEO, Andrés García, is “also Food Safety Culture, and is aligned with the values of protection, awareness and well-being that are promoted from the food sector to all links in the food [...]
Italy’s Scientific Society for Evidence on Environment, Food and Workplace Safety (UNPISI ATS) is organizing a World Food Safety Day webinar on the subject of “Mushrooms: food safety and supplements”. The event aims to raise awareness about the importance of food safety to everyone.
Edible mushrooms can be a source of carbohydrates, proteins, minerals and vitamins, including calcium, iron, manganese, selenium, B vitamins and folates. And in recent years, research has shown that some fungal species have other beneficial properties: since [...]
The Barcelona Food Safety Forum (Barcelona Seguridad Alimentaria - BSA) will celebrate World Food Safety Day this year in a morning of presentations and round table discussions at the Barcelona School of Management in Barcelona on 7 June.
The event will concentrate on issues of alternative sources of protein with a talk from Massimo Castellari, a researcher from the Government of Catalunya’s Agri-Food Research and Technology Institute (IRTA) on the “present and future of sustainable protein production”. A series of round [...]
Poland’s professional food quality and safety portal, Food Fakty, will be producing a “Food Fakty Week” again this year, during the week of World Food Safety Day.
In close alignment with the goals and calls to action of World Food Safety Day and the “Four Betters” shaping the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the week of online events will include:
Monday 6 June
A series of presentations from the private sector, Professor Małgorzata Wiśniewska from the [...]
To raise awareness of World Food Safety Day 2022, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) will share a number of images on its Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram pages. The images feature quotes from a range of stakeholders within the Irish food industry from customers to inspectors to interest groups to food businesses. Each stakeholder is answering the question ‘What does food safety mean to me’?
“This campaign showcases the passionate, innovative approach that is taken to food safety in Ireland,” the organizers explained. [...]
More than 120 delegates gathered online for the opening session of CCEURO32 – the FAO/WHO Regional Coordinating Committee for Europe, the biggest Codex region encompassing 52 Member Countries from Albania to Uzbekistan. The meeting hosted by Kazakhstan but taking place virtually from FAO headquarters in Rome runs from 16 to 20 May 2022 and explores common themes of interest to the region concerning food standards and food control.
Vice-Minister of Health Care of Kazakhstan, Doctor Mrs Aizhan Yesmagambetova,
Welcoming delegates the [...]
On 1 April 2022 Miguel Cardo (pictured left) ended his nine year term as Codex Contact Point (CCP) for Portugal. Before handing over Miguel shared his experiences.
What did you know about Codex when you started working as CCP?
My first Codex meeting as a national delegate was during the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2007 in a food hygiene meeting in New Delhi, India. It was a big challenge, a new world for me, which forced [...]