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A Canadian Experience in Food Safety Capacity Building

COUNTRY PAPER PROPOSED BY CANADA

Year of publication 2001

Author Nutrition Division

Product type Meeting

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Officials from Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) have participated in and contributed to numerous bilateral or multilateral meetings, workshops and projects in efforts to provide training and capacity building to developing countries. Recent training seminars and workshops were conducted by Health Canada and CFIA officials on procedures in conducting food safety and environmental assessments of foods derived from biotechnology. This led to the development and conductin g of a number of hands-on workshops using actual case studies of the assessment of a genetically modified food as the next step in improving the capacity building process. This hands-on approach was used at a number of international workshops sponsored by different international organizations. Future joint sessions are now under consideration and a working group, headed by Canada with the participation of other countries, was established to develop an outline for a pilot training session involvi ng food safety assessment.

Meeting symbol GF CRD Canada-4

Language English

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