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SAFEFOODERA Stakeholder Group meeting with
industry Copenhagen, 14 - 15 December 2006
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Coming together is a beginning. Keeping
together is progress. Working together is
success
Henry Ford
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• SAFEFOODERA and the European Steering Committe
  (ESC)
• The members of SAFEFOODERA-ESC are funding bodies
  from countries that are willing to open up and
  coordinate the food safety aspects of their
  ongoing national/regional programmes
• gt 90 of European food safety projects are
  nationally funded,
• but normally not within food safety
  programmes

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The primary objective of SAFEFOODERA is to
establish a platform for protecting consumers
against health risks from the consumption of food.
Network of national and EU Funders All EU MS and
AMS
Network of scientific research institutes and
universities members in all EU MS and AMS
Funders (bureacrats)
Scientists
Optimal conditions for Research and Training
The Retail and Food service sector
Consumers
Industry
CIAA
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• SAFEFOODERA WP6 External Communication
• Objective
• To establish links with stakeholders to
  facilitate pan-European dissemination and
  exploitation of project results.
• Manufacturers are responsible for determining the
  critical aspects of producing and ensuring safe
  food to the moment of consumption.
• It is an unacceptable event if a consumer becomes
  ill due to food containing hazardous levels of a
  biological, chemical or physical agent with a
  known potential to cause an adverse health
  effect.

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• Dialogue with stakeholders to Facilitating
  pan-European
• dissemination and exploitation of project
  results.
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• The scientific community (Lisabon, 23 24
  November 2006)
• SAFE Consortium membership, complemented with
  other institutes to be selected.
• The Food Industry (Copenhagen, 14 15 December
  2006)
• Tthe Confederation of the food and drink
  industries of the EU (CIAA).  
• The Retail and Food Service sectors (January
  2007)
• Representatives from The Confederation of
  National Associations of Hotels, Restaurants,
  Cafés and Similar Establishments in the European
  Union and European Economic Area (HOTREC), the
  European Federation of Contract Catering
  Organisations (FERCO), the European Modern
  Restaurant Association (EMRA), Eurocommerce and
  the International Committee of Food Retail Chains
  (CIES).
• The Consumers (February 2007)
• The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC)
• The Commission and EFSA (Berlin, March 2007)
• The management board of EFSA and the
  Commissions ERA-NET organisation.

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Future co-operation of Pan-European Networks in
Food Sciences, Safety and Technology
SAFE consortium
SAFEFOODERA
Funders
Scientists
Good contents and infrastructure
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Scientific Risk Assessment Integrated,
comprehensive and holistic approach for food
safety
Human Medicine Human health

• Agriculture
• Soil
• Seed
• Plant
• protection
• products
• Feed
• Water

Veterinary Medicine Animal health Residues
Food Science Food Water

• Meteorology
• Climatology
• Atmospheric
• physics and
• chemistry
• Global
• warming
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Consumer behaviour Economy Lifestyle Diet
Scientific Risk Assessment of the food chain
Multidiscipline programs in microbiology,
chemistry, nutrition, food technology, consumer
behavior, mathematics and economy. Predictive
microbial modelling, toxicological models etc
suitable for public and company-level risk
assessments
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The data quality challenge
Risk communication
Risk management
Risk Assessment

• Industry / Authorities- Audit-Strategies
• Sampling plans- Monitoringsystems- Risk
  reduction plans
• HACCP

Consumers Producers Politicians Media Scientists
Risk-database
Disease surveillance Systems
Authorisations / Outcome of audits and
investigations
Monitoring
Research
Productionof plants
Productionof animals
Slaughter house/dairy
Food processing
Retail
Consumer
Environment and climate
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Future co-operation of Pan-European Networks in
Food Sciences, Safety and technology
national reference labs
SAFEFOODERA
SAFE consortium
National Governments
Funders (bureacrats)
Scientists
Optimal conditions for Research and Training
EU Commission DG-Research EFSA
EFFoST
Industry
ILSI
ETP Food for Life et al.