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MeetingThe need to build the capacity of consumer organisations for improved participation in Codex 2001
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No results found.The role consumer organisations can have in strengthening the capacity and effectiveness of food safety and control systems in developing countries cannot be underestimated. From the standards setting process to the monitoring of foods in the marketplace, consumer organisations provide a critical yet neutral voice in supporting government efforts to improve the safety consumers face in the market place. Their involvement furthers consumer confidence in government systems and processes. Howe ver for them to play their full role, more work is needed to build the capacity of these organisations and also ensure their voice is heard within policy making processes. Consumers International has been successful in strengthening consumer organisations' ability to contribute to food safety issues. However these efforts need to be supported directly by Codex Alimentarius. Consumers International acknowledges the trust proposed by both FAO/WHO and are hopeful that some of the proceeds from this fund will be used to address the issues on capacity building of consumer organisations raised by this paper. -
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 Inspection System in Turkey and a short look to new developments 2001
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No results found.Turkey, The Ministry of Health (MH) and The Ministry of Agriculture (MARA) share the responsibilities on food safety. Both Ministries have great role on food control area. The MH inspects the food production establishments to give the working license and also inspects the food sale and consumption places where the MARA inspects the food products which are produced in these production places and besides has the responsibility of import and export food control. The responsibilities of the two mini stries are given in the Main Food Law and supoorted by their own regulations. Within the harmonization process to European Union, the national legislation on food is being revised in some main topics such as offcial control of foodstuffs. The regulation of the MARA on Food Production, Consumption and Inspection of Foodstuffs, introduced HACCP principles and brought a new approach to food inspection system. In new plans for food control systems of the MH, hygiene codes in addition to HACCP s ystem is included to improve the current system. By this way more efficient and effective food control system is aimed to be achieved by the MH in Turkey within the cooperation of MARA.
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