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Enhancing Food Safety Training for Safer International Trade

Better Training for Safer Food is a comprehensive EU initiative focusing on food, feed, animal health, welfare, and plant health rules. This program aims to improve competence among control staff, harmonize control systems, and enhance consumer protection. By offering training sessions, workshops, and sustained missions, BTSF helps third countries meet EU standards, reduce rejections at borders, and diversify safe products available to consumers. The program also supports African countries in producing agro-food products compliant with international standards to enhance food security. For more information, visit the provided links. Contact: sigrid.cabot@ec.europa.eu.

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Enhancing Food Safety Training for Safer International Trade

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  1. Better Training for Safer Food OIE Conference on Aquatic Animal Health Programmes, Panama 28-30 June 2011

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

  3. Areas covered: • Food law • Feed law • Animal health rules • Animal welfare rules • Plant health rules

  4. 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

  5. Training principles • Not replacing initial training • Train-the-trainer approach • Exchange of experience by mixing experts/tutors from different countries

  6. 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

  7. Characteristics of training in third countries • Training organised by external contractors • Training consists of: • - workshops at regional level • - secondment of individual experts (= Sustained training missions)

  8. Assets of BTSF in third countries • Flexibility • Rapid responsive • Demand-driven • “Train-the-trainer” concept • Provides insight in SPS regulatory framework • Direct information-sharing • Broad layer of beneficiaries

  9. 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 Approximately 35% of this global activity covers third countries

  10. Map of hosting and participating countries 2006-present

  11. EU based programmes launched (-2011) • 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 • 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Better Training for Africa Food Security Capacity Building Activities 2009-2010 • Around 100 events • Around 4000 participants • Budget of €10 million

  15. 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

  16. 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)

  17. More information? http://ec.europa.eu/food/training_strategy/index_en.htm and http://www.btsf.eu

  18. Thank you sigrid.cabot@ec.europa.eu

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