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MeetingFood Safety and Quality in Europe - Summary of emerging issues and unresolved problems 2002
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No results found.Over the past decade food safety and quality issues in Europe have become extremely controversial and have drawn a high level of attention from the public in general and consumers’ organizations in particular. Food safety and quality problems and the resulting health effects have, in many cases, compromised consumers' health, threatened the food supply and dented confidence in foods. In addition, in extreme cases, food trade has also been severely disrupted. The consequences of these problems ha ve had wide-ranging impacts throughout the food chain, and have focussed attention on the problems and prompted substantial reforms in food production, regulation and control throughout Europe. At the same time Europe has been expanding1 and changing politically and economically. For example: developments in Eastern Europe towards market economies; the enlargement of the European Union and preparations for accession of new members; the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), an d the globalisation of food trade. These regional and global developments have challenged all those involved in producing, supplying, regulating, trading and consuming food. All links in the food chain - from the farm to the table - have been charged with responding to food safety and quality issues, to assure consumers of the safety and quality of their food, whatever its origin. At the same time, those producing and trading foods need to be assured that regulations are no more restrictiv e than necessary to ensure safe quality food, so that fair trade can be established throughout Europe, and with all other trading partners. -
MeetingIntegrated approaches to the management of food safety throughout the food chain 2002Most countries with systems for recording foodborne disease have reported significant increases in the incidence of diseases caused by pathogenic micro-organisms in food over the past few decades. As many as one person in three in industrialized countries may be affected by foodborne illness each year and the situation in most other countries is probably even worse. Apart from the deaths and human suffering caused by foodborne disease, the economic consequences are enormous, running into billion s of dollars in some countries. In Europe bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, "Mad cow disease") and contamination of food with dioxins led consumers to lose confidence in the safety of foods on the market, with severe economic consequences. In many cases, the origins of food safety problems can be traced back to contamination of animal feed or other factors in the early parts of the food chain, an area which until fairly recently had received scant attention from those responsible for food s afety.
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MeetingFood Control and Food Safety System in Korea
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