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Summary report of the webinar on food safety implications from the use of environmental inhibitors in agrifood systems

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 10 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Synopsis (short abstract) This document summarizes proceedings of the webinar organized by the Agrifood Systems and Food Safety Division of FAO as a follow-up to the recent FAO publication "Food safety implications from the use of environmental inhibitors in agrifood systems". The aim was to stimulate discussion on the food safety aspects that need to be considered and addressed when using environmental inhibitors in agrifood production. The webinar was part of the activities under the FAO Food Safety Foresight Programme.

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    The challenge of feeding a growing world population while responding to the climate crisis, requires development of practices and technologies to increase sustainability of agrifood systems and reduce harmful effects on the environment. Among those approaches, environmental inhibitors are used to improve the production efficiency of crops and livestock while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases such as methane or limiting the loss of nitrogen from cultivated fields and pastures. An inadvertent presence of environmental inhibitors in food commodities can raise health concerns as well as trade disruption if standards are not established. Challenges related to food safety risk assessment and management of these substances include the lack of internationally harmonized maximum residue limits (MRLs), agreed definition for environmental inhibitors and insufficient safety information for some compounds. This publication provides an overview of various synthetic and biological environmental inhibitors along with an analysis of possible food safety implications from their use. Regulatory frameworks relevant for environmental inhibitors in selected countries are presented as examples of current approaches being taken at national or regional level. Finally, food safety-related knowledge gaps are discussed together with some perspectives on how to move forward.
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