The CCEURO Region - Regional Coordinator Germany
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.
News from the region
Online event planned for Spain’s Federation of Food Science and Technology Associations
Under the title, “Food standards in a scientific and sustainable environment” FEDALCYTA (Federation of Food Science and Technology Associations), in collaboration with the Torribera Food Campus of the University of Barcelona, have organized an online seminar to participate in World Food Safety Day.
The event coincides with the European Green Week and the European Year of Skills. Member associations (ACTAE, ACYTAEX, Associació Catalana de CTA and ATECTA-Aragón) will use this event to explore the importance of addressing food safety from a [...]
07 June 2023
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Denmark’s Food Nation to celebrate World Food Safety Day in online event
Denmark’s Agriculture and Food Council, together with Food Nation, the government’s “gateway to information about the Danish agriculture and the food sector” will celebrate World Food Safety Day this year to discuss how the Danish food sector can “continuously assess, test and innovate their products”.
The online event is aimed at “key people within food safety, innovation and marketing”.
Date: 7 JuneTime: 10.00–12.00 hours (CEST)
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RegistrationSend an email with name, title and company to: [email protected] marked "World Food Safety Day"
07 June 2023
Hospital caterers in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to convene for World Food Safety Day
Hospital caterers in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will be celebrating World Food Safety Day this year in a food safety study day that will take place in the town of Basingstoke in England.
The local “Wessex” branch of the national Hospital Caterers Association is organizing a physical day-long event for members and non-members to discuss “this fundamental and important aspect of patient, staff and customer feeding”. There will be a series of speakers plus a panel [...]
07 June 2023
World Food Safety Day awareness raising planned at Agro-industrial Technical Institute in France
The agro-industrial technical institute, ADRIA, in France is planning for its 20th annual agrifood industry (IAA) quality managers meeting, le Rendez-vous des managers de la qualité en IAA, to fall on World Food Safety Day this year.
The two-day event will take place on 7 and 8 June in Rennes and will afford participants the opportunity of discussing the latest developments in the field of quality management.
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https://www.adria.tm.fr/
07 June 2023
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World Food Safety Day event in Spain to focus on food standards and effective communication
This year for World Food Safety Day, Spanish food safety consultancy Veraliment will team up with the communications company Atrevia and representatives of their food and drink “communication hub” La Batidora for an event on how "Food standards save lives". The event will focus on food standards, how to communicate about them, the actors involved and how to continue to evolve towards greater awareness.
According to Veraliment event organizers, there is no doubt that standards help save lives, but the real [...]
05 June 2023
Finland food industry fair confirms Codex is 60 but far from retirement
As part of the global celebrations of Codex Alimentarius turning 60, the Finnish government hosted a session at the annual Food Industry fair in Helsinki, Finland, on 23 May 2023. Titled “Codex – Far From Retirement”, the session attracted over 100 food professionals out of approximately 550 people attending the fair.
The session was led by Sebastian Hielm, Finland’s Food safety Director and European member of the Executive Committee of the Codex Alimentarius Commission and included presentations by Tom Heilandt, Secretary [...]
04 June 2023
International Training for Safer Food - ITS Food Online 2023
Food Safety and risk management training with a focus on residues and contaminants
by BVL Germany
In October 2023 Germany’s Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) will once again host the International Training for Safer Food. ITS Food is a training on food safety risk management, aimed at staff working in public authorities of non-EU countries handling issues related to food safety. ITS Food 2023 will focus on “Residues and Contaminants”.
Practitioners from competent authorities, official laboratories and research institutions [...]
15 February 2023
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Portugal’s Sumol+Campol organizes World Food Safety Day event to promote company-wide food safety awareness
Sumol+Compal, the Portuguese fruit and vegetable juice and snack company, promoted World Food Safety Day on 8 June with a webinar for all employees, which aimed to promote and consolidate the culture of quality and food safety within the organization.
The webinar, which took place in collaboration with Sumol+Compal partners and official entities, addressed a number of food safety issues.
The first presentation was from Filipa Melo de Vasconcelos, Sub-inspector General of the Portuguese Economic and Food Safety Authority (ASAE) and Portugal’s representative to [...]
12 December 2022
ACT project part of One Health approach to combat antimicrobial resistance in foodborne pathogens
WHO roundtable discussion in Croatia
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is not only a human health threat, but also a food safety issue. Antimicrobial use in food animals – for treatment, disease prevention or, in some countries outside the European Union, growth promotion – allows resistant bacteria and resistance genes to emerge and spread from food animals to humans through the food chain. To address this issue, the World Health Organization (WHO) organized a roundtable discussion on 10 November 2022, in close collaboration [...]
11 November 2022
Artificial Intelligence for detecting food fraud - promoting Codex standards through AI
The international conference "Artificial Intelligence (AI) for detecting food fraud" was held on 13 September 2022 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
The conference was organized by the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for Europe (CCEURO) of the Codex Alimentarius, the European Center for Peace and Development of the United Nations University for Peace (ECPD), the International Food Standards Certification Organization (IFSCO), with the support of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The conference, attended by 1680 participants from Europe and Asia adopted a [...]
14 September 2022
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CCEURO Coordinator
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For regional enquiries contact:
CCEURO Secretariat
German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Wilhelmstrasse 54, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 30 18 529 4065
Email: [email protected]