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BotswanaEuropean Commission Health and Consumers Directorate-General
| Report Title: |
Plenary Meeting of the Advisory Group on the Food Chain and Animal and Plant Health |
| Report ID: |
443 |
| Date: |
3/7/2008 |
| Report Type: |
Meeting Record |
| URL: |
[sum_07032008.pdf] |
| Country: |
European Union |
| Organization: |
European Commission Health and Consumers Directorate-General |
| Summary: |
The Advisory Group on the Food Chain and Animal and Plant Health meets twice a year in plenary sessions to discuss general food safety policy issues, and advises the European Commission. This document contains a summary of the Group's March 7, 2008 meeting. The Commission's representative presented to the Group an overview of the new Comitology forward planner, a comprehensive overview of actions designed to inform stakeholders of activities. The planner lists the timing of proposed measures, their descriptions, and the stakeholder consultation considered. The Group also listened to a Commission presentation on Private Voluntary Standards (PVS), which predominantly apply to food products and are a trade issue to developing countries outside the EU. Participants felt that PVS could contribute to the enforcement of EU food law and that they put pressures on retailers from NGOs to market products on the basis of safety. However, some participants believed that marketing products on the basis of safety creates confusion over safety, misleads consumers, and gives an unfair competitive advantage to developing countries. The Commission representative stated that a working group will be organized to foster a more structured discussion of PVS. |
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sum_07032008_443_2049.pdf |
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| Report Title: |
Follow-up to the 2nd Nanotechnology Safety for Success DialogueTop ten actions to take by Easter 2009 |
| Report ID: |
132 |
| Date: |
12/17/2008 |
| Author: |
Robert Madelin |
| Report Type: |
Workshop Report |
| URL: |
[ev_20081002_en.htm] |
| Country: |
European Union |
| Organization: |
European Commission Health and Consumers Directorate-General |
| Summary: |
The 2nd Nanotechnology Safety for Success Dialogue was held in Brussels on October 2-3, 2008 and addressed innovation, safety, and consumer trust as they relate to nanotechnology. This Report, authored by Robert Madelin, the European Commissions Director General for Health and Consumer Protection, identifies ten actions for stakeholders and citizens to accomplish by Spring 2009. Among those actions discussed are: (i) preparing for the next conference, (ii) drafting discussion papers between EU members, (iii) launching sector-by-sector stakeholder dialogues, (iv) establishing a web-based platform for information exchange, (v)contemplating an EU-wide inventory of nanotechnology products, (vi) initiating studies for hypothetical applications, (vii) identifying the fastest ways to generate needed scientific knowledge, (viii) requesting EFSA to update food safety regulations, (ix) planning risk assessment of consumer nanotechnology products, and (x) creating a network of risk assessors for information exchange and collaboration. |
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