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south africa looks to efsa model for food safety?
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calls emerge in south africa for the country to streamline food safety standards in the wake of the uk's sudan 1 scare. according to reports in the country's business day journal, the body that represents south africa's €25 billion consumer goods industry - the consumer goods council - resolved at a meeting last month to form a unified food standards body in south africa, similar to the european union's. the council aims to replace the variety of standards set by government and government-linked bodies with a single organisation, "to coordinate activities on food safety by the private sector, government, academic institutions and consumers." sudan 1 to iv are classified as carcinogens by the international agency for research on cancer and are banned under european union rules. but in february the discovery of sudan 1 in a worcester sauce brand - used as both a tabletop sauce and food ingredient - made by uk manufacturer premier foods triggered not only the recall of over 600 processed food products on the uk supermarket shelves, but spreading as far a field as china. a clear demonstration of the impact of the uk recall, the country's biggest, on questions of global food safety, the business day quotes an unnamed source in the supermarket retailing industry that says the health department, the agriculture department, the trade and industry department and the south african bureau of standards have different standards on food. this makes it hard for food manufacturers, particularly those which are small, to find out which regulations to follow. raising more question marks, a spokesperson for the food industry says the problem is not a lack of legislation on food safety but the problem is either the complexity of the regulations or inadequate enforcement. europe recently established its first food safety body, the european food safety authority (efsa), to carry out risk assessments on food safety issues. parma-based efsa uses an army of scientists based on various panels, from gmos to contaminants, plucked from the world over to provide opinions based on risk assessments. the job of risk manager still falls with the european commission.
Source :foodqualitynews.com
Date :
16
May
2005
Category :
Food And Health
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at a time when so many resources are being pumped into improving consumer health through food, it is pitifully ironic that more and more people are getting sick or dying from what they eat because of safety slips. a new report published last week by the us centers for disease control and prevention reveals a 50 percent increase in e coli infections since 2004, and a monstrous 78 percent increase in vibrio infections - caused by eating raw shellfish - over the past decade.
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all stakeholders have a “duty to work together” to deliver safe food, delegates at the global food safety conference were told overnight, with the industry needing to unite in order to shore up consumer confidence in the food supply chain. in welcoming a record-breaking 675 delegates from 39 countries to the conference, managing director of the consumer goods forum*, jean-marc saubade, said consumer confidence had been shaken the world over, following a series of high-profile food safety incidents.
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food manufacturers, in creating quality products, must be mindful of the potential choking hazards associated with their products, says intertek. the global food quality and safety analysts said that a training seminar they are hosting at their us facility in october provides in depth analysis and understanding of crucial food safety issues related to choking and choking prevention.
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the adoption of 44 new and amended food safety standards by the codex alimentarius commission signals the coming changes that member countries will make to their legislation over the next year. at a six-day meeting that ended last friday in rome, the international food safety body also established a comprehensive set of risk analysis principles to help governments establish their own standards, especially for food items that are not covered by codex.
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wal-mart announced today that it will implement additional beef safety measures designed to further protect customers against foodborne illnesses. the new process controls standards and goals are additions to a food safety program that already requires ground beef suppliers to test for e.coli o157:h7 and achieve prevention-based certification against one of the global food safety initiative (gfsi) internationally recognized standards.
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a bill to overhaul the food safety system needs to be stronger and incorporate more funding, food and drug administration (fda) commissioner margaret hamburg told a senate committee hearing on thursday. the proposed legislation is the companion bill to the food safety enhancement act that passed the house back in july, and hamburg said that she would like to see the senate version more closely resemble that legislation.
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a coalition of different environmental organisations, the zero mercury working group, claims that there are risks associated with eating fish due to its mercury content, and consumers need to be made aware of these through fish and seafood product labelling. the group maintains that the proposed european union regulation for labelling foodstuffs, currently being considered in the european parliament, should include advice for vulnerable groups about the mercury content of fish and seafood.
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