The European Commission is developing steps to be followed in times of a crisis based on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The contingency plan is a set of procedures to be put in place in times of crises to ensure food supply and food security across the EU. It
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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has held an online workshop on crisis preparedness, giving attention to fast-evolving, largescale foodborne disease outbreaks.
Sixty-three participants attended plenary and/or working group activity sessions across two days.
During the first day, there was a two-hour discussion exercise on incident response in the case
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It was a mixed year which saw many multi-country, multi-year outbreaks raise their head again but for some of them, 2018 marked the year they were solved.
The year also brought regulation changes, updated standards, trade disputes and action based on past issues. Below are some of the most
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A network of “crisis coordinators” has been established by the European Commission as part of plans to improve management of food safety incidents.
The idea of one contact point in each of the 28 EU member states came about at a meeting in September 2017 following the fipronil incident. Findings
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Five European food safety agencies have met to practice response to an emergency food safety incident.
The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) of Germany, Economic and Food Safety Authority (ASAE) in Portugal, Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition (AECOSAN), UK Food Standards Agency
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These should be heady days at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The nation’s $1+ trillion deficit is not much of a speed bump for the $288 billion potpourri we call the 2012 Farm Bill, replenishing the supply of goodies USDA gives out to those who qualify in the 400
While the timing may have been sensitive (it was just days after the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks), the LA Times’ “Food Poisoning: America’s Homegrown Threat” revisited a June New York Times column comparing the worst terror attacks on U.S. soil to the number of annual deaths related
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