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Information Note

Year of publication 2004

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 4

Product type Meeting

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) A food safety system involves government, private sector, consumer and other partners such as academia and media. Building effective food safety systems relies heavily on coordination, collaboration and communication of all activities. These activities include in particular control of food safety and epidemiological surveillance with accurate reporting which will be discussed under the two selected sub-themes: 1 - Strengthening official food safety control services; 2 - Epidemio-surveillance of food borne disease and food safety rapid alert systems

Meeting symbol GF 02/INF 11

Language English

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