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Alberta Agriculture and Food

Alberta Agriculture and Food . Food Safety Division. Agri-Food Laboratories Branch Office of the Chief Provincial Vet Agri-Food Systems Branch. Regulatory Services Division. Food Safety Division. Greg Orriss - Director Sandy Honour – Br Head, Agri-Food Systems

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Alberta Agriculture and Food

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  1. Alberta Agriculture and Food Food Safety Division Agri-Food Laboratories Branch Office of the Chief Provincial Vet Agri-Food Systems Branch Regulatory Services Division

  2. Food Safety Division Greg Orriss - Director Sandy Honour – Br Head, Agri-Food Systems Ken Manninen – Agri-Food Laboratories Gerald Ollis – Chief Prov Vet Kim Whitehead – Head, Safe Food Systems Section Daryl Loback – FSS Coordinator Narine Singh – Food Safety Specialist Betty Vladicka – Food Safety Specialist

  3. Bussiness Plan • Continued Excellence in Food Safety • Facilitate adoption of internationally accepted • food safety systems and standards in production • and processing of Alberta food. • National and Provincial Food Safety Strategy • CFISIG, CAPiFS – FPT committees • APF – FPT committees

  4. Office of the Chief provincial Veterinarian • - Animal Health for Market Access • Biosecurity/Pandemic preparation • Animal Health Act and Regulations • BSE sampling and testing protocols • Scrappie and Chronic Wasting • SRM disposal program

  5. Agri-Food Laboratories • 50 chemists and microbiologists • food safety and animal disease • surveillance and methodology • SCC – ISO 17025 Accredited • CCP mitigation and validation • poultry health program • BSE testing, residue testing • Level 3 biocontainment lab

  6. Agri-Food Systems Branch • 45 vets and staff • Fairview, Airdrie, Lethbridge, Edmonton • toxicology and epidiemiology studies • AVSN – private vets under contract to report symptoms and diseases – data rollup

  7. Agri-Food Systems Branch • OFFS - 2 Agrologists/Food Safety Specialists • Poultry Specialist • Horticulture/Farmer’s Markets • Micro processors • CFIA lead Tech Reviews • CFIA policy document committees • Food processing - 8 Safe Food Systems Specialists • FSI funded - 20 Food Safety Specialists

  8. APF/FSI Program – $22 million • 160 applications for $15,000 • 1 pilot project with Olds College - $39,000 • 20 incremental staff • 20 projects – videos, generic HACCP plans • HACCP, auditor and gap assessment staff training • meat plant consulting – prov plants • Alberta HACCP Advantage (AHA!) • standard and resource material • department – 40 R&D projects

  9. Multi-commodity Meetings - Host an annual meeting of provincial commodity associations and other stakeholders to discuss OFFS issues - 2007 meeting focussed on the goals, challenges and needs of provincial delivery agents (PDO) and how AF could assist - NineOFFS programs implemented to varying degrees in Alberta - Mandatory: - Alberta Hatching Egg Producers - Alberta Chicken Producers - Alberta Milk

  10. Challenges identified - Inadequate resources - Producer attitude - Program administration - Poor communications among stakeholders - Lack of auditors

  11. AF could… - Maintain enforcement of food safety legislation and inspection services - Expand technology transfer activities - Provide animal diagnostic services - Expand role in promoting OFFS - Assist in development of a pool of auditors

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