En 1976, un Comité Coordinador para América Latina, establecido por el 10.º período de sesiones de la Comisión del Codex Alimentarius en 1974, celebró su primera reunión en Roma, a la que asistieron ocho países de la región. En su tercera reunión, se propuso cambiar el nombre del comité a su forma actual (Comité Coordinador para América Latina y el Caribe) de manera que reflejase mejor la composición de la región. En 1984, la 31.ª reunión del Comité Ejecutivo aceptó este cambio en nombre de la Comisión.
La región de América Latina y el Caribe es un importante actor en la producción y el comercio de alimentos a escala mundial. La región produce suficientes alimentos para abastecerse y exportar, y cuenta con agua y tierra incluso para aumentar su producción.
La región cuenta con una enorme riqueza natural, una industria agrícola floreciente y un sector agropecuario familiar que resulta esencial para su población. Se debe continuar promoviendo y fortaleciendo la inocuidad de los alimentos en todas las regiones para garantizar la salud de los consumidores y un comercio justo y equitativo.
Ecuador, el coordinador, tiene su sede en AGROCALIDAD, un organismo dependiente del Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería. Su objetivo es crear sinergias entre los países de la región, a fin de que se presten apoyo mutuo para superar los problemas regionales y estudiar soluciones a los retos comunes.
Además, el coordinador tiene el propósito de reforzar la colaboración entre los países y fortalecer la participación de los países en desarrollo en la Comisión y sus órganos auxiliares.
The Agency for the Regulation and Control of Phytosanitary and Animal Health (AGROCALIDAD) in Ecuador is running a competition and hosting a webinar for World Food Safety Day, under the themes of “food safety is everyone’s business” and “safe food now for a healthy tomorrow.”
The event will have two parts to it, with Rommel Betancourt, AGROCALIDAD’s food safety coordinator opening the proceedings with a word about World Food Safety Day.
Thereafter, Agustin Zimmermann, the representative for the Food and Agriculture Organization [...]
The Codex Guatemala office is inviting interested parties to attend a webinar for World Food Safety Day, which is organized under this year’s theme “Safe food now for a healthy tomorrow.”
The free event will address two key subject areas:
the relevance of laboratory analysis to keeping food safe in the Guatemalan food industry
food safety is everyone’s business
The webinar will take place on World Food Safety Day itself: 7 June.
Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAod-mhqD8sH9WL3o9unSdrFBz75ShSqubW
Date and time:
7 June, 08:00 (14:00 GMT)
The Costa Rican Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Commerce will host a webinar for World Food Safety Day under this year’s theme "Safe food now for a healthy tomorrow."
The 7 June event will include recognized national and international panelists who will contribute to two sessions:
The role of intestinal microbiota in the advance towards safe and healthier foods
The process of normalization and regulation of nanotechnology and nano materials as prevention of nanotoxicity
The event will be opened by Victoria Hernández Mora, [...]
Salvadorean authorities will hold a virtual conversation on food safety on 7 June, in celebration of World Food Safety Day, with the aim of ensuring that all sectors involved in the food chain are informed about the importance of food safety.
The event will be opened by El Salvador’s Minister for the Economy and President of the National Quality Control Agency, Maria Luisa Hayam Brevé and Giovanni Escalante, the country representative for the World Health Organization (WHO).
The webinar will consist of [...]
To celebrate World Food Safety Day this year, the Dominican Republic’s ISA University will host a 1-hour online conference to explore issues around science and food safety, with a focus on the World Food Safety Day slogan “Food safety is everyone’s business.”
The university has teamed up with a local initiative called Inocuidad Gemela RD and David A. Carroll, from the School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, Boston, USA, to explore “the importance of the food industry, safe [...]
Students on the Master of Chemistry Program of the Faculty of Natural and Exact Sciences at the Universidad Autonoma de Chiriquí in Panama have organized a conference on Chemical Residues in Food, with a focus on the event motto: "Safety - an essential element for sustainable food security and sovereignty."
The conference will take place online in the morning of 7 June and will cover:
Sustainable food systems
Food safety
Kinetic pollutants: Wastewater, Pesticides and Mycotoxins.
In the afternoon there will be a diagnostic workshop [...]
Federal University of São Paulo's research group “Dialogues on risk and food safety in interdisciplinary contexts” is planning a webinar to celebrate World Food Safety Day and the theme of the year “Safe food now for a healthy tomorrow”. The event, which will take place on June 7, will see undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and food safety professionals in the audience.
The line up of speakers includes Dr Elke Stedefeldt, Dr Laís Mariano Zanin and a representative from the National [...]
A food industry consulting and training firm in the Dominican Republic, Suzaña & Lombert Professional Service SRL, will hold two webinars on food safety subjects to celebrate World Food Safety Day. The company chose an innovative way to decide on the topics for discussion in their events: they asked the public what they wanted to know about!
The responses to a multisectoral survey revealed the topics people most wanted to learn about include food safety and small business, and Good Hygiene [...]
Costa Rica los invita al Webinar Alimentos inocuos ahora para un mañana saludable a celebrarse el 7 de Junio próximo a las 9:00 am (CST), en conmemoración del “Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos” . Adjunto la invitación, la respectiva agenda y una síntesis de los reconocidos panelistas nacionales e internacionales, los cuales estarán abordando el Panel No.1. “El papel de la microbiota intestinal en el avance hacia alimentos inocuos y más saludables” y el panel No. 2. “Proceso [...]
To open the week leading up to World Food Safety Day, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the International Regional Organisation for Animal and Plant Health (OIRSA) and the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (CCLAC) organized a two-day webinar to discuss the impact of food contaminants, traceability systems and best agricultural practices on food safety.
Attendance figures were high [...]
