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External Control Risk Assessment and Certification Process

External Control Risk Assessment and Certification Process. GMO- free Labelling in Practice Know-how Transfer and Experiences with the Austrian Labelling System Workshop im Rahmen des Donau Soja Symposiums 5. September 2012. Topics. Who is agroVet and what do we do?

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External Control Risk Assessment and Certification Process

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  1. External ControlRisk Assessment and Certification Process GMO-freeLabelling in Practice Know-how Transfer andExperienceswiththe Austrian Labelling System Workshop im Rahmen des Donau Soja Symposiums 5. September 2012 Dr. Gabriele Moder

  2. Topics • Who is agroVet and what do we do? • Cultivation of GM crops • Project workflow (overview) • Inspection and certification workflow (overview) • Example: feed! Dr. Gabriele Moder

  3. agroVetCertification • Austria‘s leading inspection bodyfor GMO-free production of food and feed • Private owned, independent company • Accredited according to EN 45011 standards Dr. Gabriele Moder

  4. GMO-freeInspectionandCertification • Milk: inspection of ~ 8000 farmers, ~ 35 dairies • Eggs: ~ 500 farmers, plus packing and breeding units • Meat: beef (~ 450 farmers), pork (~ 100 farmers), poultry (~ 100 farmers) • Processing units: Feed-mills, Oil-Mills,… Dr. Gabriele Moder

  5. Geneticallymodifiedcrops Quellen: www.transgen.de, USDA (Anbauzahlen 2010/11) Dr. Gabriele Moder

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  7. Project Workflow • Meeting with interested partner (= food processors) – basic features: who / what / when • Guidelines for farmers – what to do, which feed is allowed, starting time, documentation… • Meeting with all parties: processors and farmers • Project starts Dr. Gabriele Moder

  8. InspectionandCertification Workflow • Start of inspectionfirst inspection of all farmers and processors • correction and improvement process • Risk assessmentrisk based inspection in the following years • Certification - in the office • Correct labelled products in the shelfs / supermarket / consumers Dr. Gabriele Moder

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  10. Inspectionpoints: • Recipes, quantities • Documentation, traceability • Processing: separate production (time, place) • Sample taking, analysis • Labelling Dr. Gabriele Moder

  11. Critical Point: Feed GMO-feed is not allowed! Labelling according to EU legislation (1830/2003) Dr. Gabriele Moder

  12. Contamination … feedcontaining material which contains, consists of or is produced from GMOs in a proportion no higher than 0,9 per cent of the feed and of each feed of which it is composed, provided that this presence is adventitiousortechnicallyunavoidable… article 24 (2) of EU regulation 1829/2003 on geneticallymodifiedfoodandfeed Dr. Gabriele Moder

  13. Feed: Correctlabelling in Austriaaccordingto Austrian Codex guidelinefor GMO-freeproductionoffoodanditslabelling • example: • = suitablefortheproductionof GMO-freefoodinspectionbody: agroVet Dr. Gabriele Moder

  14. GMO-freefeedfinder on www.infoxgen.com • Easy to use • No costs forinternet-users • Listing feesfor feed-producers Dr. Gabriele Moder

  15. Thankyouforyourattention! Dr. Gabriele Moder

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