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Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency

Better Training for Safer Food

Initiative Animal By-Products

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A DG SANTE training initiative for EU and third country officials who undertake controls on food safety and veterinary issues.

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Areas covered

• Food law
• Feed law
• Animal health rules
• Animal welfare rules
• Plant health rules

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• Harmonised approach to

Community and national control systems

• High levels of consumer

protection, animal health and welfare and plant health

• Level playing field for food

businesses

• Enhance trade of safe food

General objectives

• High levels of competence and awareness of EU rules

amongst official control staff

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BTSF in figures from 2006 to 2014

A comprehensive programme

• More than 1100 events
• Around 48.000 participants
• Budget of approx. € 110 million

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Training for EU countries 2015 onwards Around 170 events 40 activities approx. Around 6300 participants Budget of almost €15 million

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Programmes

HACCP Animal Health Controls (bees/zoo) Contingency planning and animal disease control Food additives Veterinary Medicinal Products Risk Assessment Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies

running in 2015

Animal traceability Emerging plant health risks Union overview reports Sustainable use of Plant Protection Products Food Hygiene at primary production Food hygiene and flexibility New food investigation techniques RASFF Control of semen/embryos sectors

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Programme

Animal By-Products Feed law Control of contaminants Checks at BIPs Import control on FNAO TRACES Control of movements of pets Microbiological criteria Food borne outbreaks investigations Animal welfare rules

running in 2015

Food contact materials (plastic recycling processes) Pesticides application equipment control Zoonoses/Anti-microbial Resistance Plant Health Controls + Series of conferences within Milan Expo

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BTSF: Animal by-products activities

• Among the first training activities organised under

BTSF (since 2006)

• Around 34 events involving more than 1600

participants

• Aim = to spread knowledge and disseminate best

practices for control procedures to be applied at all stages of production, processing, distribution and destruction of ABP  Emphasis on experience sharing

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BTSF: ABP activities on 2015-16

• 15 3-day workshops: 9 on ABP in Belgium/The Netherlands

(1), Germany (4) and in Slovenia (4) and 6 specific events

• n Organic Fertiliser and Soil improvers in Belgium
• 30 participants per workshop

Main contents: EU legislation, rules of validation of processing methods, normative boundaries between public health and other relevant legislations, TSE rules, general rules on placing on the market of ABP and derived products, control of traceability, import controls of ABP materials

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Thank you for your kind attention

http://ec.europa.eu/food/training_strategy/index_en.htm http://www.btsf.eu/

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Better Training for Safer Food

BTSF

JVL Consulting s.a. Rue Matagne 15 B-5020 Vedrin Belgium Website: http://btsf.euroconsultants.be/

• European Commission

Consumers, Health and Food Executive Agency DRB A3/042 L-2920 Luxembourg