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Executive Summary of the Report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Hazards Associated with Animal Feed. 12 – 15 May 2015, Rome Italy

Year of publication 2015

Pages 8p.

Publisher FAO/WHO ;

Product type Meeting

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The expert meeting was jointly organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), in line with their overall aims of securing feed and food safety and ensuring fair practices in the trade of feed and food. The objective of the meeting was to provide an updated overview of the current state of knowledge on hazards associated with feed (including feed and feed production technologies of increasing relevance, such as insects, form er food and food processing by-products and biofuel by-products). The meeting was also intended to provide guidance on the most appropriate use of this information for risk analyses purposes; to identify knowledge gaps and to prioritize future work on the identification of potential hazards of key global concern from the perspective of human and animal health.

Meeting Session Number Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Hazards Associated with Animal Feed

Language English

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