PERIAPT

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PERIAPT
Dr Hubert P.J.M. Noteborn VWA-Directorate
Research Risk Assessment
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Early Warning Systems

• European Union
• European Rapid Alert System Food and Feed
  (RASFF)
• RAS News
• Poland
• National System of Harzardous Products
  Information
• (NSHPI Information System)
• Transitional Rapid Exchange of Infornation
  System (TRAPEX) on
• dangerous consumer goods

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General Food Law (Regulation EC/178/2002)

• identification of emerging chemical and/or
  microbial risks in food
• and feed production chains
• any information leading to suspect an emerging
  (serious) risk the
• competent (inter-)national agencies should
  reply as a matter of
• urgency and forward any relevant information
  in their possession to
• the Commission
• anticipatory tool for collecting information
  and exercising vigilance and
• providing evaluation of and information on
  emerging risks.

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Emerging risks .
1974 I forecast that people will soon be
spending 8 hours a day in front of a desktop
computer What are the emerging health
risks?
Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)
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Percentage of Population Aged 75 years and over,
1960-2020  
OECD Report Emerging Risks in the 21st Century
An Agenda for Action

• Addresses risks that affect systems on which
  society depends health, transport, environment,
  food, telecommunication etc.
• Focuses on important changes to major risks that
  are expected to take place in the fields of
  climate change, environment, technology,
  demography and socio-economy
• Identifies these trends and propose a framework
  for studying and managing risks as they evolve
  in new directions.

IFP, 2000-2002
  Sources Commission des Communautés Européenes,
1992 Eurostat 1995 Note Comparable data for
Austria, Finland, Sweden are not available.  
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Effective control of antibiotic resistance
requires a continuing strong partnership between
all parts of the health care system and the
international community. Our mutual goals must
be to improve surveillance and research, so we
can more clearly see what is happening in
antibiotic resistance and make decisions based
upon the best evidence.
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General Description

• Objectives
• creation of an "internal market" in research
  
• restructuring of the European research
  fabric
• development of an European research policy.
• Research organisations that are able to
  coordinate transnationally
• networking of research programmes
• mutual opening of national/regional research
  programmes.

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Pan-European Pro-Active Identification of
Emerging Risks in the Field of Food Production
PERIAPT Silver ring-idol pendant of Neolithic
times found in a cave on the small island of
Salamina in the Saronic Gulf of Attica, Greece
by Prof. Yiannis Lolos and his team (1994)
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PERIAPT
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PERIAPT STRATEGIC TOPICS

• Challenges in protecting the consumers against
  novel health risks and misleading information
• Identification of new or re-emerging chemical
  and/or microbial risks in food and feed
  production chains in an expanding EU market
• Development of reliable information system
  (network) on suspected emerging risks in order to
  inform EFSA and competent (inter-) national
  agencies.

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MAN-ON-THE-MOON
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PERIAPT Networking

• Challenges
• No minor undertaking
• Involves long-term planning and investment in an
  environment of short-term financial planning
• Differences in philosophies, mandates,
  institutional structures, political agendas and
  financial constructs
• To avoid negative repercussions of special
  interest.

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OBJECTIVES (1)

• to establish a sound basis of a future ERA-NET to
  identify Emerging Risks (Regulation EC/178/2002)
• to identify Member States or Candidate Countries
  that are interested in coordinating the Food
  Safety aspects of their ongoing national/regional
  programmes

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OBJECTIVES (2)

• to agree on vision and methodology to be used to
  implement
• a sustainable future ERA-NET
• to define scientific challenges within selected
  strategic topics and to define new opportunities
  and gaps in the existing programmes with the help
  of SAFE FOODS
• to exchange management programmes and evaluation
  practices to enhance the preparation of future
  agreements/arrangements aiming at sustained
  cooperation.

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WORKPLAN
WP1 Information exchange Forming start group,
building trust, inventory paper, electronic
platform
WP2 Strategic activities Defining joint
strategic options, challenges/gaps, action plan,
draft white paper (agenda setting)
WP3 Work conference Describing the roadmap to a
future ERA-NET
WP4 Transnational activities Describing programme
options and managements, building network
Management Framework Progress towards
sustained cooperation, management and finacial
reports, contracts, public relations issues,
implementation competitive calls
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MANAGEMENT

• The Network coordinator (Dr. Hubert Noteborn,
  VWA) will chair
• the PERIAPT consortium
• Work package leaders (Dr Marcel Mengelers VWA ,
  Dr Hartmut Waldner BVL, Dr Marina Miraglia ISS
  and Wim Ooms VWA) will do the overall follow up
  of the networking activities
• A joint secretariat will be set up at the Dutch
  Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (VWA),
  including public relation, to support the
  management activities
• Lucjan Szponar (IZZ) will be the liaison for the
  EFSN network
• André Huyghebaert (FASFC) will be the liaision
  for EFSA.

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Global village

• By 2020, people will be citizens of the world
  globens, following jobs
• Increase in border/factional skirmishes worldwide
  and in global terrorism
• Over 3,000 languages threatened with extinction
  by emerging WWW-orld culture
• Crises in sustainability due to economic and
  environmental conflicts (e.g frauds).

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Promoting Food Safety through a New Integrated
Risk Analysis Approach for Foods
SAFE FOODS 33 participants Co-ordinator Dr. H.A.
Kuiper / RIKILT
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