Better Training for Safer Food Initiative Animal By-Products Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency
A DG SANTE training initiative for EU and third country officials who undertake controls on food safety and veterinary issues. Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency
Areas covered Food law • Feed law • Animal health rules • Animal welfare rules • Plant health rules • Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency
General objectives High levels of competence and awareness of EU rules • amongst official control staff • Harmonised approach to Community and national control systems • High levels of consumer protection, animal health and welfare and plant health • Level playing field for food businesses • Enhance trade of safe food Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency
BTSF in figures from 2006 to 2014 A comprehensive programme • More than 1100 events • Around 48.000 participants • Budget of approx. € 110 million Appr pprox. ox. 33 33% of this is ac activity ivity co cover ers s thir ird d co count untries ies Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency
Training for EU countries 2015 onwards Around 170 events 40 activities approx. Around 6300 participants Budget of almost € 15 million Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency
Programmes running in 2015 HACCP Animal traceability Animal Health Controls Emerging plant health risks (bees/zoo) Union overview reports Contingency planning and Sustainable use of Plant Protection Products animal disease control Food Hygiene at primary production Food additives Food hygiene and flexibility Veterinary Medicinal Products New food investigation techniques Risk Assessment RASFF Transmissible Spongiform Control of semen/embryos sectors Encephalopathies Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency
running in 2015 Programme Food contact materials Animal By-Products (plastic recycling Feed law processes) Control of contaminants Pesticides application Checks at BIPs equipment control Import control on FNAO Zoonoses/Anti-microbial TRACES Resistance Control of movements of pets Plant Health Controls Microbiological criteria + Food borne outbreaks Series of conferences investigations within Milan Expo Animal welfare rules Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency
BTSF: Animal by-products activities • Among the first training activities organised under BTSF (since 2006) • Around 34 events involving more than 1600 participants • Aim = to spread knowledge and disseminate best practices for control procedures to be applied at all stages of production, processing, distribution and destruction of ABP Emphasis on experience sharing Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency
BTSF: ABP activities on 2015-16 • 15 3-day workshops: 9 on ABP in Belgium/The Netherlands (1), Germany (4) and in Slovenia (4) and 6 specific events on Organic Fertiliser and Soil improvers in Belgium • 30 participants per workshop Main contents: EU legislation, rules of validation of processing methods, normative boundaries between public health and other relevant legislations, TSE rules, general rules on placing on the market of ABP and derived products, control of traceability, import controls of ABP materials Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency
Thank you for your kind attention http://ec.europa.eu/food/training_strategy/index_en.htm http://www.btsf.eu/ Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency
JVL Consulting s.a. Rue Matagne 15 B-5020 Vedrin Belgium Website: http://btsf.euroconsultants.be/ Better Training for Safer Food BTSF • European Commission Consumers, Health and Food Executive Agency DRB A3/042 L-2920 Luxembourg Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency
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