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... despite initiatives such as the rapid alert system for food & feed (rasff), the eu food chain is still vulnerable to malicious activity for the sake of profit or terrorist type activity, according to a leading food safety expert ... speaking at the 2011 institute of food technologists (ift) binstead lecture in london, shortly before the current e ... coli crisis broke, tony hines mbe from leatherhead food research (lfr) said that the rasff yielded a useful database regarding eu food safety issues ... the rasff provides environmental health officers, regulatory managers and enforcement authorities with a weekly digest that enabled them to identify transgressors within or without the union, and to ‘horizon scan’ where and when problems are likely to occur, as well as assess comparative data on eu border inspections ... spanish oil scandal hines welcomed such systems, but said the little-known toxic spanish cooking oil scandal from 1981, when 1,000 people lost their lives and thousands were seriously injured, was a “very good example of just how big an issue we can create with food, and shows just how vulnerable the food chain is” ... the sudan 1 crisis – in which the carcinogenic food dye was used illegally to colour chillies and paprika and boost their value – began in 2003, gaining momentum in 2005 ... however, hines said most people in the food industry “had their heads buried in the sand and hoped the issue would go away” , although he said that when he wrote the first product recall notice out in 2003 that he knew sudan i contamination would be a massive problem ... the most recent dioxin scandal concerned tainted industrial fatty oils in german feed, and hines said he watched news broadcasts where the german authorities insisted that the incident was under control and that they knew where the dioxins went in the food chain ... so who do consumers believe? widespread fear of food fraud prompted such actions, said hines, with the chinese melamine-tainted infant formula scandal still a recent memory

... growing scrutiny of food suppliers means an increasing focus on food safety issues ... shouting (food safety issues) from the rooftops is important, but remember that consumers will notice inaccurate or mixed messages tony hines, head of food security and crisis management manager, leatherhead food research, told foodmanufacture ... uk that, under eu food safety requirement, article 14, consumers can expect to purchase food fit for consumption, not injurious to health and consistent with label descriptions ... under eu general food law, article 19 ... damage limitation once a firm finds itself in a recall/withdrawal situation, hines said, details can appear on websites, in retail stores and even (in rare cases) the national press; the uk food standards agency (fsa) has an alert system, while charities like the anaphylaxis campaign can send an sms message to lists of allergenic consumers when risky products are identified ... food manufacturers must monitor social media to pick up and respond to emerging issues ... a great food scare can do this and … sell newspapers ... ” johnson said that trade associations such as the uk-based food & drink federation should communicate industry-wide issues, ensuring consistency and diverting attention from individual companies; manufacturers should also follow updates from the likes of the fsa to plan next steps ... risk assessment processes hines said one critical question during food scares is whether hazard analysis critical control points (haccps) have been compromised ... these serve a specific food safety purpose and a well-documented, trained haccp team and plan form a major part of any potential due diligence defence in case of court action, and are critical to future prevention, he explained ... but johnson said a surprising number of uk food producers thought a rigorous haccp system (which she said the majority implement) gave wholesale coverage regarding risk

... the hand on the tiller that is food safety in europe has been left somewhat unsteady by the recent regulatory actions taken by the european commission on bpa and food colours – moves that are pandering to consumer fear and showing contempt for the food safety agency it created ... does the commission care about scientific rigour? twice now, the eu has introduced legislation contrary to the findings of careful and reasoned review by experts at the european food safety authority (efsa) ... and since july 2010, warning labels on eu products containing the six colours are mandatory ... and headlines like ‘killer chemicals’ and ‘gender benders’ in the global mainstream press have helped to give rise to some of the anxiety over bpa, and food and drink companies have been hunting for alternatives ... but the eu food safety policy can not be guided by public opinion and outcry

... the hand on the tiller that is food safety in europe has been left somewhat unsteady by the recent regulatory actions taken by the european commission on bpa and food colours – moves that are pandering to consumer fear and showing contempt for the food safety agency it created ... does the commission care about scientific rigour? twice now, the eu has introduced legislation contrary to the findings of careful and reasoned review by experts at the european food safety authority (efsa) ... and since july 2010, warning labels on eu products containing the six colours are mandatory

... meat from the offspring of a cloned cow, raised and slaughtered in the uk has been exported to belgium, the uk’s food standards agency has confirmed ... but belgian authorities say there is no food safety issue, so no rapid alert was required ... the fsa subsequently issued a rapid alert using the eu food safety system to notify belgian authorities on 9 august ... however belgium’s federal food safety agency, afsca, is now asking the european commission to wipe the uk notification from the system, as it says it should never have been posted – even just for information purposes ... yesterday the commission told all eu member states that food from descendents of clones are conventional foods, and therefore no special measures apply

... scientists have highlighted the virtue of food safety performance indicators (fspi) to help businesses evaluate their own safety management systems without having to perform actual microbiological analysis ... in a project supported by the eu food safety project pathogencombat, a group of european scientists sought to develop and evaluate a new way of effectively and efficiently evaluating food safety management systems (fsms) ... writing in international journal of food microbiology , food science and safety experts from three european universities therefore sought to establish a way of measuring food safety performance without performing actual microbiological analysis ... indicators they therefore tested a food safety performance diagnosis based on seven indicators against mas at nine european meat and dairy businesses ... examples of the indicators used in the diagnosis include comprehensiveness of external evaluations, type of food safety complaints, and approach to product sampling ... the researchers concluded that their work demonstrates that food safety performance diagnosis can be applied instead of microbiological analysis to “get a first insight” of the microbiological performance of a food safety management system ... they said the food safety performance diagnosis has the added advantage of supporting a food business in identifying what to improve and how to do so

... italy, germany the uk and spain “take the lion’s share of protecting and policing eu” food safety as they are responsible for almost 60 per cent of notifications under the bloc’s rasff system, according to new research ... the report also suggested that countries with large ports or air traffic hubs will bear the burden of the eu’s food security policing role ... the study by a petroczi et al analysed thousands of food notifications recorded through the european union’s rapid alert system for food and feed (rasff) between 2000 and 2009 ... 7 per cent of all food notifications while the remaining 26 eu countries and commission services accounted for the rest ... introduced under regulation ec/178/2002, rasff was put in place to provide food and feed control authorities with an effective tool to exchange information about measures taken responding to serious risks detected in relation to food or feed ... a key aspect of the rasff system is its categorisation of notifications between: market notifications, border rejections and news notifications – which express varying degrees of concern about health risks arising from a food product if placed on the market ... study findings the paper - gatekeepers of eu food safety – has been published in the food and chemical toxicology journal ... “these results suggest that these four countries are self-sufficient in ensuring food security with heavy reliance on border control, official market control and for the uk, information from companies and consumers,” said the study

... eu food safety bodies have signed up to a plan to develop common methodologies for collecting food consumption data across the bloc, which will allow for more accurate exposure assessment and could reduce compliance cost for industry ... most eu member states do already collect data on the population’s eating habits ... a new declaration to carry out the first pan-european consumption survey – dubbed the eu menu – was signed by member states’ food safety representatives in seville last week ... the preparatory phase will take place in 2010 and 2011, and the collection of food consumption data will be carried out under a rolling programme between 2012 and 2017 ... the european food safety authority (efsa) will play a central role in coordinating data collection ... it will be easier to calculate the potential impact of any food safety risk for sectors of the european population ... industry benefit the declaration recognises that the eu menu project will bring cost benefits for food industry, as food safety risk assessments will become more accurate

... the european commission has adopted a regulation on active and intelligent packaging that confirms it is to introduce an authorisation scheme for substances used in food packing ... the body said that any material used for active and intelligent functions in food contact materials will require a safety evaluation by the european food safety authority (efsa) ... the announcement follows the completion of a consultation exercise from the eu food safety watchdog earlier in the year ... ” active packaging involves an interaction between pack and food product to extend the shelf life of the product, while intelligent pack monitors the quality and/or safety of a food product, providing an indication that can be helpful in the distribution chain, such as radio frequency identification (rfid) tags and sensors ... an ec statement said: “a single market will be created for the use of active and intelligent packaging by laying down criteria which ensure their safety while allowing for a competitive position of this new type of packaging “the proposed regulation will introduce specific labelling rules and will require the business operator to issue a declaration of compliance so that an adequate information flow on their safe use is ensured throughout the business chain

... new year's day marked a significant milestone for food safety in the eu, with the entry of a large updated body of food and feed legislation ... the food hygiene package, the regulation on microbiological criteria for foodstuffs, the regulation on official feed and food controls and the feed hygiene regulation, constitute a complementary set of rules to tighten and harmonise eu food safety measures ... these laws will apply at every point in the food chain, in line with the eu's "farm to fork" approach ... "the new year brings a new level of protection for eu citizens as these food and feed safety rules become applicable," said markos kyprianou, commissioner for health and consumer protection ... "consumers can be confident that the best possible food safety practices are now being applied at every step in the production chain ... this legislation also offers benefits to food businesses and to our trading partners, by clarifying and simplifying the rules they must comply with" ... food hygiene adopted in 2004, the hygiene package is a streamlined body of legislation that sets down stricter, clearer and more harmonised rules on the hygiene of foodstuffs, specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin, and specific rules for controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption ... under the food hygiene legislation, the onus is placed on food operators to ensure that food reaching eu consumers is safe ... they will have to apply compulsory self-checking programmes and follow the hazard analysis and critical control point (haccp) principles in all sectors of the food industry ... the legislation foresees the establishment of guides to good practice, at either eu or national level to assist food operators with the implementation of self-checking programmes, and all food operators will have to be registered ... microbiological criteria the new regulation harmonises and modernises eu microbiological criteria for foodstuffs, with the aim of increasing consumer protection and reducing food-borne illnesses