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industry must unite to boost public confidence in food safety
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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. “we all have a duty to work together on a non-competitive basis to deliver this. it is imperative to join up the dots: between farm and fork; between science, industry and regulators; between standards, auditors and suppliers …the industry will speak as one voice,” the head of the leading global manufacturer and retail network said. in a call to action, jp suarez, chairman of the global food safety initiative (an initiative of the consumer goods forum) and senior vice president and general counsel, international division at wal-mart, said gfsi was only as good as its participants. the initiative should not be an expensive luxury that only the biggest companies can afford. “we need to reach the small suppliers and figure out how to make gfsi relevant,” he insisted. don’t blame consumers
it is inappropriate to shift responsibility for food safety onto consumers, academics told the conference. while acknowledging that consumer education about cooking and food storage should improve, marion nestle - professor of nutrition and food studies at new york university and author of safe food - the politics of food safety, said that to focus on consumers as the weak link in the supply chain was to ignore the fact that most of the recent outbreaks of food borne illness came from pre-cooked, fresh or ready-to-eat products. “it’s not the consumer’s fault,” nestle told the conference. “they need safe food to begin with.” research from nielsen showed that consumers, too, place the primary responsibility for safe food at the door of manufacturers and producers. in an online poll of consumer perception of food safety in 54 countries, 68% of consumers said manufacturers had the main responsibility. some 23% believed the onus was on the government to regulate, inspect and enforce policy, while only 8% blamed retailers. there was little correlation in the survey between geographic region or market maturity and the answers given, except when it came to consumers’ willingness to pay a premium for safe food. those most willing to pay were clustered in developing markets, while consumers in developed markets were the least willing to pay extra for safe food. * “the consumer goods forum is an independent, global consumer goods network founded to enable its members improve the way they meet the needs of the world’s ever more knowledgeable and demanding consumers. it brings together the ceos and senior management of over 650 retailers, manufacturers, service providers and other stakeholders across 70 countries. forum member companies have combined sales of eur 2.1 trillion.” -->
Source :ausfoodnews.com.au
Date :
5
February
2010
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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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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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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.
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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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