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Hygiene & safety of fishery products

CESE 14 February 2014

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Paolo Caricato Deputy Head of Unit European Commission Health & Consumers Directorate General Directorate G – Veterinary and International affairs Unit G4 – Food, Alert System and Training

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EU Food safety legislation

• GOALS

– Prevent contamination by hazards – and thus minimize risks for human consumption

• Consequences:

– FBO to work towards compliance – Competent Authority to control FBOs and to proceed to specific official controls/analyses on products throughout the production chain to ensure compliance or equivalence with food safety legislation are achieved and then certify

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EU LEGISLATION : PRINCIPLES

• SAFE FOOD = FOOD COMPLIANT AND CONTROLLED WITH

REGARD TO THE RELEVANT COMMUNITY LEGISLATION REQUIREMENTS

• FOOD SAFETY BASED ON THE CONTROL OF THE FOOD

PRODUCTION CHAIN versus CONTROL ON END-PRODUCTS

• « FARM TO FORK APPROACH » = « SANITARY

TRACEABILITY » (i.e. FOR IMPORTED FP: FROM SEA TO EXPORTED CONSIGNMENT)

• IMPORTED FOOD: SAME LEVEL OF CONSUMER PROTECTION

EITHER FOR FOOD PRODUCED IMPORTED OR PRODUCED IN THE EU (based on SPS principle), i.e. for FISHERY PRODUCTS: COMPLIANCE OR EQUIVALENCE

• NO DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN THIRD COUNTRIES

EXPORTING TO THE EU (based on SPS principle)

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EC LEGISLATION

• BASED ON CODEX ALIMENTARIUS RECOMMENDATIONS

– PRE-REQUISITES (structure, organisation, equipment, material) – GOOD HYGIENE PRACTICES – HACCP PRINCIPLES/SYSTEM

• OFFICIAL CONTROL & CERTIFICATION

– OIE/CODEX RECOMMENDATIONS/GUIDELINES – ISO STANDARDS:

• COMPETENT AUTHORITY CONTROL ACTIVITIES
• FVO METHODS FOR AUDITS/INSPECTIONS

Health and Consumers

Former hygiene rules

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Meat Poultry meat Milk Fishery products Processing

Health and Consumers

The “White paper” on food safety

• -Published in January 2000
• -Plans for a proactive new food policy:
• modernising legislation,
• reinforcing controls,
• increasing the capability of the scientific advice system,
• guaranteeing a high level of human health and consumer

protection.

• -Strategic Priorities of the White Paper are:
• to create a European Food Safety Authority
• to consistently implement a farm to table approach in food

legislation

• to establish the principle that feed and food operators have

primary responsibility for food safety; that Member States need to ensure surveillance and control of these operators; that the Commission shall test the performance of Member States' control capacities and capabilities through audits and inspections

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Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 Food law

Competent authorities Food business operators

Regulation (EC) No 882/2004

General rules for official controls

Regulation (EC) No 854/2004

Specific rules for official controls

• n products of animal origin

Regulation (EC) No 852/2004

General rules

• n hygiene

Regulation (EC) No 853/2004

Specific hygiene rules for products of animal origin

Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005 Microbiological criteria Regulation (EC) No 2075/2005 Trichinella Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005 Other implementing rules

Health and Consumers

Legal framework:

• Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 - General food law
• General principles
• Risk analysis and scientific basis
• Precautionary principle
• Protection of consumers’ interests
• Principle of transparency
• General requirements
• Food safety requirements
• Presentation of products
• Responsibilities
• Traceability
• Procedures
• European Food Safety Authority

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Health and Consumers

Hygiene legislation: The main branches

• Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 - Hygiene of

foodstuffs

• Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 – Specific hygiene

rules for food of animal origin

• Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 - Official Feed &

Food Controls

• Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 - Official controls on

products of animal origin intended for HC

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Import from Third Countries Regulation 178/2002/EC(Food Law ) Art. 11

Food and feed imported to the Community… shall comply with the relevant requirements

• f food law or conditions

recognised by the Community to be at least equivalent… with requirements contained therein.

• Specificically regulated by

– Regulation (EC) 882/2004 (art. 46)

• General – Commission experts may carry out

inspection in third countries in order to verify compliance or equivalence

– Regulation (EC) 882/2004 (art. 47)

• General – Import conditions

– Regulation (EC) 882/2004 (art 48)

• Specific – Import Conditions.

Exporting Fish, Fishery products and live bivalve molluscs into the EU (2)

• A Regulation (EC) 882/2004 (art 48)
• Specific – Import Conditions. Apply to fish, fishery

Products and LBM

• List of countries from which certain products may

be imported (+ Reg. 854 art. 11 and art. 12)

• Establishment of Model Certificates (+ Reg. 854
• art. 14 and Annex VI)
• Special import conditions for single products or

group of products and from single countries or group of countries

Exporting Fish, Fishery products

and live bivalve molluscs into the EU (2)

Checks on importation of products

Harmonised procedures BIP

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Documentary check

Veterinary certificate

Origin authorised third country agreed establishment Original document One sheet of paper Written in one of the

• fficial languages of

MS of introduction

Identity check

Correspondence between products and the veterinary certificate * Products details recorded on the certificate * health mark check

• number of establishment
• officially approved

* third country list

Physical check

by random sampling

Organoleptic Visual Microbiological Chemical Environmental contaminants Additional checks

From N.Brooks FVO

MAIN HAZARDS IN FP AND LBM

• Biological

– Bacteria e.g. vibrio, salmonella, E. Coli, Listeria m., – Parasites

• Chemical

– Histamine (sensitive species) – Toxics – Heavy metals – Other environment contaminants (pesticides, dioxines,…) – Veterinary drug redisues in aquaculture products (nitrofuranes, chloramphenicol, malachite green…) – Marine biotoxins

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FVO MISSION OBJECTIVES

• OBJECTIVES:

TO VERIFY THAT THE CA IS CAPABLE – FOR MS: TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS OF EC REG. 852/853/854/882/2004 – FOR TC:

• TO CONTROL AND CERTIFY EXPORTED FP

TO THE EU REGARDING REG (EC)

1250/2008 AH/PH combined

REQUIREMENTS, amending REG. 2074/2005)

• TO DEMONSTRATE ITS RELIABILITY IN

ORDER TO MAINTAIN THE PRE-LISTING PROCEDURE

MAIN FINDINGS RELATING TO FISHERY PRODUCTS PRODUCED IN OR EXPORTED TO THE EU

– KNOWLEDGE/IMPLEMENTATION/CONTROL/ENFORCE MENT OF COMMUNITY REQUIREMENTS – CA EFFICIENCY, i.e. inspection frequency, scope, depth, follow-up, enforcement – BUDGET for CONTROLS/ANALYSES – LAB CAPACITIES/QUALITY OF ANALYSES – RESIDUE MONITORING PLAN FOR EXPORTED AQUACULTURE PRODUCTS

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MAIN FINDINGS RELATING TO FISHERY PRODUCTS PRODUCED IN OR EXPORTED TO THE EU (cont.)

• RUNNING/POTABLE/CLEAN WATER (ICE)

– FRESHNESS OF FISH LANDED – HYGIENE OF OPERATIONS – COLD CHAIN – HYPER-CHLORINATED WATER USE – FP TRACEABILITY:

• FROM VESSELS TO PLANTS
• WITHIN PLANTS
• RAW MATERIAL IMPORTED OR COMING FROM NON « EU

APPROVED » VESSELS OR ESTABLISHMENTS – HACCP Plan inappropriate, inadequate/insufficient documentation – NUMBER OF OWN-CHECK ANALYSES AND OFFICIAL ANALYSES – ADDITIVES (crustaceans) – HEALTH STATUS OF STAFF

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HOW TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION ?

– Pressure on MS:

• request for action plans
• tight follow-up (on-desk exercise and FVO

missions) – CA official training: SANCO programme « Better Training for Safer Food » for better harmonisation regarding control and enforcement – Feedback on Community legislation implementation for possible revision

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HOW TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION?

– Pressure on TC: pre-listing on hold, appropriate and proportionate protective measures, action plans and follow-up (on-desk exercise and FVO missions) – CA official training: SANCO programmes, « Better Training for Safer Food » (including STM) – technical assistance provided by Commission services (DEVCO,TRADE, ELARG/TAIEX) following TC requests