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Side Events during the Second Global Forum of Food Safety Regulators

Year of publication 2004

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Product type Meeting

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Synopsis (short abstract) Joint IAEA/FAO/WHO Seminar on the use of irradiation for sanitary and phytosanitary purposes; International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN) – Information meeting; Presentation on the International Portal for Food Safety, Animal and Plant Health; Presentation on Training Manual for Five Keys for Safer Food; Presentation on Capacity Building Needs Assessment in Food Safety; Presentation on Codex training package; Consumer food safety concerns; International Symposium on In Search of Bett er and Effective Food Safety System: Thailand towards Kitchen of the World

Meeting symbol GF 02/INF 13

Language English

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