En 1964, en su segundo período de sesiones, la Comisión del Codex Alimentarius estableció el Comité Coordinador para Europa, que sucedería al “Consejo Europeo del Codex Alimentarius” y sustituiría al "Grupo Consultivo para Europa", creado en su primer período de sesiones en 1963.
La primera reunión del Comité Coordinador para Europa se celebró en julio de 1965 en Berna (Suiza) y a ella asistieron 16 países de la región.
El coordinador actual, Alemania, tiene su sede en el Ministerio Federal de Alimentación y Agricultura (BMEL).
Las prioridades fundamentales de Alemania como coordinador son las siguientes:
- reducir los obstáculos a la participación activa de los miembros de la región en los trabajos del Codex;
- aumentar la sensibilización sobre el papel del Codex y de la inocuidad de los alimentos en general en la transición hacia sistemas alimentarios sostenibles;
- promover el uso de las normas del Codex en los ámbitos prioritarios como la resistencia a los antimicrobianos (RAM).
Con el fin de abordar estas prioridades, el coordinador aprovechará las sinergias de las actividades internacionales y regionales de la Secretaría del Codex, la FAO y la OMS, así como de los observadores del Codex.
Poland’s week of World Food Safety Day celebrations, the Food Fakty eforum, are set to take place 12-16 June this year. Plans for this year’s event include a celebration of the 60th anniversary of Codex Alimentarius.
The event will centre this year’s World Food Safety Day theme of “food standards save lives” as well as broadening discussions to a wider perspective, inviting as many institutions as possible to present their message to the food industry.
This is the third year of Food [...]
Professor Parvez Haris of De Montfort University in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will give a World Food Safety Day lecture on arsenic in rice and whether quinoa can be a healthier and safer alternative.
For many years Professor Haris has been carrying out research on rice, especially focusing on its essential and toxic element composition [1-3]. According to Haris, the research with populations in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Bangladesh revealed [...]
The Royal Society for Public Health in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has organized a World Food Safety Day event entitled “Listeria: legislation, the law and food practices”.
This in-person conference will take place in Birmingham and is aimed at enforcement officers, food safety managers, food manufacturers, food business owners and anybody with an interest in food safety. Chaired by Professor Lisa Ackerley, Director of Public Health and Hygiene Engagement at Reckitt Benckiser, and Kathryn Gilbertson, partner [...]
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]