THE CONFERENCE REPORT: FUTURE CHALLENGES TO MICROBIAL SAFETY NETHERLANDS, WOLFHEZE FROM 9 TO 12 JUNE 2008
 The four day conference on microbial food safety took place in Netherlands, with 120 microbiologists, epizoothiologists, veterinarians, doctors and food technologists, mostly coming from Europe and others from USA, Canada, Australia, New Zeeland, Japan and Hong Kong. The conference was organized by the Office for Risk Assessment of the Dutch Food and Consumer Products Safety Authority, with the support of The Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), University of Amsterdam (UvA), Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR) and European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
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The Croatian Food Agency got the ISO 9001:2008 certificate in January 2009. This certificate proves that our quality management system is in line with the requests of this standard and harmonised with the legislation in force. Since this certificate is issued by an independent body, it demonstrates that the Agency has implemented necessary internal processes to comply with the obligations of this standard. It requires permanent improvement and development of our quality management system.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Andreas Hensel, the director of the BfR (The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment from Germany) visited the HAH (Croatian Food Agency) on 4 March 2009. During this visit the two institutions signed the Contract on cooperation that regulates scientific cooperation, theoretical and practical education of Croatian employees working in food safety area, and training on risk communication.
The 4th Central European Congress on Food and the 6th Croatian Congress of Food Technologists, Biotechnologists and Nutritionists took place in Cavtat from 15 May till 17 May 2008.
The European Food Safety Authority which is the European Union's scientific risk assessment body on food and feed safety, nutrition, animal welfare and plant protection and health is inviting scientific with high specialisation in a wide range of scientific and expert fields, such as food safety, nutrition, toxicology, chemistry and animal welfare to apply.
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The Food Standard Agency has published the protocol outlining how to inform the public in the case of food safety incident in UK.
The Regional Meeting of the Working Group 3 within the framework of the Open Regional Fund for SEE –Legal Reform was organized by Technical assistance of German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Budva in the period from 25 till 28 March 2008. The meeting discussed Food Safety issues in six countries on the Western Balkan. The Meeting agenda was about Food Safety and Consumer Protection conducted by State Authorities and Institutions, further implementation and harmonization of legislatives with EC directives and all participating countries. The meeting in Budva was opened by Dr. Ramona Lichtentäler from Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety of Germany (BVL) with her presentation about "The role and competencies of BVL related to food safety and health-based consumer protection in Germany".
EFSA is launching a public consultation on its draft scientific opinion on the implications of animal cloning on food safety, animal health and welfare and the environment. The work follows a request from the European Commission (EC) to EFSA for advice on this issue in February 2007. EFSA’s opinion will help inform consideration of any future EU measures[1] in relation to animal clones and products obtained from these animals....