Under the Patronnage of

Her Royal Highness Princess Alia Bent Al Hussein

Workshop on food safety

AGR 42380
organised in co-operation with
the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of
Planning and International Cooperation

Venue:
Ramada Hotel And Suites****
28 Abdullah Bin Omar St.

Amman (Jordan),
29-30 November 2010

For more information on TAIEX assistance and to download presentations of

this event, please go to: http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/taiex.
 Aim of the meeting:

The workshop will provide an overview of EU legislation on food safety and its
implementation. The international dimension of food safety will be addressed as well
as the "farm to fork approach" and hygiene rules. On Day II, EU control rules, rules
for specific foodstuffs and the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) will
be discussed. There will also be an introduction to the "Better Training for Safer
Food" Programme of the European Commission.

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 Day I : Monday 29 November 2010

Chair: Wolf-Martin Maier

08:30 Registration
09:00 Opening
• Representative of the Delegation of the European Commission
• General Director of the Jordanian Food & Drug Administration
• His Excellency the Minister of Agriculture
Section 1: International Dimension of food safety
09:30 EU legislation on food safety - general overview
Wolf-Martin Maier (Directorate-General Health and Consumers,
European Commission)
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Food safety standards in Jordan
Mohammed Al Khraishi (Food and Drug Administration, Jordan)
10:50 Food safety standards in Egypt
Expert from Egypt
11:10 Food safety standards in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Expert from the OPT
Section 1: "Farm to fork approach"
11:30 EU food safety legislation – "farm to fork approach"
Wolf-Martin Maier (Directorate-General Health and Consumers,
European Commission)
12:00 Lunch break
13:30 Risk analysis (Art. 6 Reg. 178/2002)
Yves Opsomer (Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain, Belgium)
14:00 Responsibilities and traceability (Art. 17, 18 Reg. 178/2002)
Jaana Elo (Food Safety Authority, Finland)
14:30 Coffee break
Section 2: EU hygiene rules

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15:00 Principles of HACCP
Blanka Slosarova (Department of Food Control of Non-animal Origin,
Slovak Republic)
15:30 Hygiene rules for food of animal origin
Conrad Maas (Regierungspräsidium Tübingen, Germany)
16:00 Panel discussion
17:00 End of day I

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 Day II : Tuesday 30 November 2010

Chair: Raymond Ellard

08:30 Registration
Section 3: EU control rules
09:00 EU legislation on official controls
Ron Dwinger (Voedsel en Warenautoriteit, The Netherlands)
09:30 EU legislation on official controls for products of animal origin
Alessandro Baiguini (ASUR Marche, Italy)
10:00 EU legislation on controls at border inspection posts
Anton Bartl (Federal Ministry of Health, Austria)
11:00 Coffee break
Section 4: Complementary legislation
11:30 Specific rules (food additives, novel food, food contact material,
GMOs)
Yves Opsomer (Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain, Belgium)
Section 5: RASFF
12:00 Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF)
Raymond Ellard (Food Safety Authority, Ireland)
Questions and Answers
12:30 Q&A session with all speakers
13:00 Lunch
Section 6: EU third country listings
14:00 EU third country listings
Wolf-Martin Maier (Directorate-General Health and Consumers,
European Commission)
Section 7: BTSF and conclusions
14:30 Better Training for Safer Food
Wolf-Martin Maier (Directorate-General Health and Consumers,
European Commission)
15:00 Panel discussion and conclusions

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16:00 End of workshop

This meeting is being organised by the

Technical Assistance Information Exchange Instrument
of the European Commission
CHAR 03/149, B - 1049 Brussels
Telephone: +32-2-296 73 07, Fax: +32-2-296 76 94

Web site http://taiex.ec.europa.eu/

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