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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

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A DG SANCO training initiative for EU and third country officials who undertake controls on food safety and veterinary issues.

What is BTSF ?

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Areas covered:

• Food law• Feed law• Animal health rules• Animal welfare rules• Plant health rules

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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

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Training principles• Not replacing initial training

• Train-the-trainer approach

• Exchange of experience by mixing

experts/tutors from different countries

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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

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• 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

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• 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

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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

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Map of hosting and participating countries 2006-present

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• 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

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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

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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

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Better Training for Africa

Food Security Capacity Building Activities 2009-2010

Around 100 eventsAround 4000 participants

Budget of €10 million

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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

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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)

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More information?

http://ec.europa.eu/food/training_strategy/index_en.htm and

http://www.btsf.eu

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