Studium Generale en Patio : Food security there & food safety here: Global and local concerns?

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6 Mar 2003 13:30
Unit: Wageningen University
Location: De Wereld (gebouw 366), Capitulatiezaal, 5 Meiplein 1, Wageningen
Organisation: Sander Essers, tel. 0317-484413 / 482030, e-mail sander.essers@wur.nl

 Quality and safety aspects are part and parcel of food security. However, high quality and safety standards in industrialised countries (EU and USA) can raise obstacles to food and feed exports of developing countries. The WTO SPS agreement, aimed at trade liberalisation, provides world-wide arrangements allowing sanitary and phytosanitary barriers to trade. The FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius is the reference point for this agreement by setting global safety standards. Also national governments and food industries develop their own standards and quality assurance systems and adhere to them. The reasons and necessity of these quality and safety regulations, the influence on economic opportunities for developing countries, their different responses and possibilities are being discussed in this forum, while paying attention to the wider context of food security. The latest developments on global food security and food safety are presented and debated by:
Louise Fresco (Assistant Director-General FAO; distinguished professor at WUR): International perspectives on food security and food safety.
Marcel Mengelers (toxicologist, Head of Unit of Supply Chain Management, RIKILT): Implications of our food quality and safety demands for developing countries.
Suzanne Bont (senior policy officer food safety, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries): Codex Alimentarius: a call for global consensus.
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