Better Training for Safer Food
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Better Training for Safer FoodBetter Training for Safer Food
OIE Conference on Aquatic Animal Health Programmes, Panama
28-30 June 2011
A DG SANCO training initiative for EU and third country officials who undertake controls on food safety and veterinary issues.
What is BTSF ?
Areas covered:
• Food law• Feed law• Animal health rules• Animal welfare rules• Plant health rules
General aims
• 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
Training principles• Not replacing initial training
• Train-the-trainer approach
• Exchange of experience by mixing
experts/tutors from different countries
Third country specific objectives
• Help third countries to better understand and meet EU standards
• Reduce the number of rejections at EU borders• Give EU consumers access to a more diverse
range of safe products • Enhance food standards in third countries to
benefit local consumers
• Training organised by external contractors • Training consists of:
- workshops at regional level- secondment of individual experts (= Sustained training missions)
Characteristics of training in third countries
• Flexibility• Rapid responsive• Demand-driven• “Train-the-trainer” concept• Provides insight in SPS regulatory framework• Direct information-sharing• Broad layer of beneficiaries
Assets of BTSF in third countries
Approximately 35% of this global activity covers third countries
• Around 520 events of 3 to 15 days• More than 23.000 participants• Budget of approx. € 54 million
BTSF in figures from 2006 to 2010
Map of hosting and participating countries 2006-present
• HACCP• Animal by Products• Animal Welfare• BIPs Airport• BIPs seaport/roads/rail• Zoonoses/microbiological
criteria• Food Hygiene and Control• Food Contact Materials• Plant Protection Products• Plant Health Control• TSE• Food/feed of non-animal origin
EU based programmes launched (-2011)
• Feed law• Animal Health Controls
(Aquaculture)• Animal Health Controls (bees/zoo
animals)• TRACES for EU Member States• Quality schemes• Audit systems• Support for EU controls
EU-based training 2011 Aquaculture animal health
• 3-day sessions on aquatic animal health
- 1 with particular focus on mollusc/crustacean diseases
- 2 particular focus on fish diseases• 40 participants per workshop• Main subjects:
- Introduction to EU legislation- pathogen and disease description- surveillance/inspection/sampling- outbreak measures - notifications- practical training on farms
Third country activities (- 2010)
•EU food standards (workshops and STM)•Avian flu and other animal diseases (STM and laboratory training)
•Laboratory testing (hands-on laboratory training in an EU laboratory on a variety of topics)
•Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed and TRACES (information sharing workshops and hands-on training)
•GMO testing (workshops) •BTSF Africa
Better Training for Africa
Food Security Capacity Building Activities 2009-2010
Around 100 eventsAround 4000 participants
Budget of €10 million
Better Training for Africa
• Help African countries produce agro-food products compatible with international standards
• Contribute to reducing food-borne disease• Support food security through technical
and policy advice
Better Training for Africa
Training Activities with OIE:• Evaluation of Performance of VS + follow-up• Improvement of national/regional legal
framework• Laboratory capacities (twinning)• Training of CVOs/National Focal Points
Workshops and sustained training missons:• 12 five-day regional ‘training of trainers’
workshops• 2 one-day (opening and closing) conferences• 1,560 days of Sustained missions/ad hoc
assistance (SMEs)
More information?
http://ec.europa.eu/food/training_strategy/index_en.htm and
http://www.btsf.eu
Thank [email protected]