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Ensuring Food Safety & Quality: From Farm to Fork

Explore the European policies on food safety, quality, and the role of agronomy professionals in guaranteeing healthy food from farm to table. Discover the importance of a comprehensive approach and harmonized control systems at a national level.

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Ensuring Food Safety & Quality: From Farm to Fork

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  1. Feeding the world Sub-theme 6 Session 15

  2. From farm tofork: a profession at the center of the foodchain Coretti Cosimo Damiano, CONAF (Coordinator of the Department of Food Safety)

  3. WhatisFoodSafety? Food safety is the positive result that flows from the activities of all the actors involved in the complex chain of agricultural production, processing, transportation, preparation, storage and consumption. Food Safety = healthy food

  4. European Policy on Food Safety “White Paper” on foodsafety (EU, 2000) What is the “White Paper”?

  5. It is a policy document that aims to ensure, as a key strategic priority, a high level of food safety. In chap. 2, Section 8 reads: "the principle of the White Paper is that food safety policy must be based on a comprehensive and integrated approach", such that it should cover the entire food chain in its different phases, the participants and all sectors concerned.

  6. Fundamentalprinciples: • The creation of a European Food Authority, autonomous; Reg.CE 178/2002, Reg.CE 852/2004, Reg.CE 853/2004, Reg. CE 854/2004, Reg. CE 396/2005 e altri……) • An improved legal framework covering all aspects related to food products from "farm to table"; • Control systems harmonized at national level Reg. CE 882/2004 “Green Paper” on agricultural product quality: product standards, farming requirements and quality systems (EU, 2008) • A dialogue with consumers and other stakeholders, including farmers

  7. This new approach / logic has also put farmers in a position of direct responsibility towards the consumer Hence the slogan "from farm to fork", in which food safety becomes a shared responsibility in the entire production chain

  8. Consumers today, in addition to food safety, pay increasing attention to agriculture’s contribution to: QUALITY QUALITY = satisfy consumers’ expectations

  9. This innovative climate, which has affected the agricultural sector and that has been consolidated over the past decade, has put farms in a state of extreme uncertainty for several reasons: absence of parallel support policies in order to facilitate the reorganization of a company in line with the new demands of the market; major consumer awareness to seek and obtain safety and food quality; the development of a ‘voluntary’ standard production in response to the increased requirements of retail (supermarket chains)

  10. To give concrete answers to this new innovative system, the agricultural sector requires: HIGHLY PROFESSIONAL TECHNICAL CONSULTANCY

  11. with LOVE OF THE LAND SPECIFIC COMPETENCE

  12. MORAL INTEGRITY PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

  13. The Agronomy and Forestry Doctors for their interdisciplinary training in line with the demands emerging, can play an important role in: qualification / modernization of rural areas; improving the quality of life, ensuring a higher production of healthy food and of good quality; choice / use of modern, rational and "clean“ means and technologies, in line with sustainable development

  14. Therefore putting our profession in the center of this new agricultural system, means: GUARANTEEINGBOTH FARMS AND THE CONSUMER FINALLY ENDING A PROFESSIONAL, GENERALIZED AND ERRATIC BEHAVIOR JOIN A SPECIFIC AND RATIONAL INTERVENTION IN LINE WITH MARKET DEMANDS

  15. So, to the question “Could we satisfy the increased nutritional requirements while maintaining food quality and safety”? We Agronomists and Forestry Doctors respond yes, while recognizing the essential centrality of our profession throughout the food chain

  16. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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