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SAFE Announcements and Events:
- SAFE Event 2016: Safe Food for the Future. 21 Oct
Our food is changing: To protect the European consumer, who assumes that any food found anywhere in Europe is safe to eat, the safety of foods of the future and of emerging bio-based food technologies needs immediate and constant attention. - SAFE consortium AGM: 21 OCTOBER at Food Factory 2016
The 2016 Annual General Meeting of the SAFE consortium will take place in two parts. Part I was on 13 MAY 2016 by Teleconference. Part II will be 21 OCTOBER 2016 at the SAFE Annual Event: a workshop on Safe Food for the Future at the Food Factory 2016 Conference in Laval France. - SAFE Member Meetings 2016: 30 August
The date of the next SAFE consortium EB meeting is 30 AUGUST 2016 at 14.00 CET.
Log in as a SAFE member to download agendas and minutes from EB meetings and from SAFE member meetings. Once logged in, these documents become available as an article in Past Events. Minutes from previous years are also available as separate articles in Past Events.
- 18 Jan 2016
- 22 Feb 2016
- 15 March 2016
- 18 April 2016
- 13 May 2016 (AGM Part 1)
- 30 August 2016
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SAFE Event 2016: Safe Food for the Future. 21 Oct
Our food is changing: To protect the European consumer, who assumes that any food found anywhere in Europe is safe to eat, the safety of foods of the future and of emerging bio-based food technologies needs immediate and constant attention.
SAFE consortium AGM: 21 OCTOBER at Food Factory 2016
The 2016 Annual General Meeting of the SAFE consortium will take place in two parts. Part I was on 13 MAY 2016 by Teleconference. Part II will be 21 OCTOBER 2016 at the SAFE Annual Event: a workshop on Safe Food for the Future at the Food Factory 2016 Conference in Laval France.
SAFE welcomes its newest member: NIFES
The Norwegian National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES) conducts research on the seafood you eat. The institute studies fish nutrition and the effects of fish and seafood consumption on our health.
NIFES joined the SAFE consortium in June 2016.
Read more about NIFES here.
SAFE Position Paper Released April 2016: Safe Food for the Future
The European Association for Food Safety, SAFE consortium announces the publication of its newest position paper,
Safe Food for the Future
released 29 April 2016.
Read the position paper on ISSUU, here or download the pdf from the SAFE site, Publications, here.
You can read and download this and other SAFE publications on ISSUU or at the Publications tab.
SAFE Joins FACCE-JPI Stakeholder Advisory Board
The SAFE consortium was elected as a member of the Stakeholder Advisory Board of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE) effective January 2016. SAFE joins 15 other food and climate stakeholders in providing advice to increase the relevance of FACCE-JPI work and suggesting ways to further dissemination and impact.
The SAFE consortium representative to the Stakeholder Advisory Board is Irina Smeu of SAFE member IBA in Romania. Read more about IBA here.
Read about the FACCE-JPI here.
SAFE at Wageningen Food Law Winter School: Feb 2016
SAFE consortium Scientific Secretary, Dr. Katherine Flynn, Ph.D., gave a lecture on 'Food Toxicology and Risk Assessment' at the Food Law Winter School organised by Wageningen University from 1 to 5 Feb 2016.
SAFE welcomes its newest member: SP Food and Bioscience
SP Food and Bioscience is a unit of the SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden.
They joined the SAFE consortium in January 2016.
Read more about their activities here.
SAFE at the EFSA Conference:14-16 Oct 2015
EFSA held its 2nd Scientific Conference
in MILAN ITALY on 14-16 October 2015 in the context of World EXPO 2015
The conference included outstanding invited presentations, several hundred posters and over 900 participants.
The SAFE consortium presented a poster,
"Keeping food safety challenges on current and futrue agendas: The European Association for Food Safety, SAFE consortium" in the session Expertise for the Future.
SAFE at E.N.G. Global Food Safety:Sep 2015
The 10th annual Global Food Safety Summit focused on managing a safe and secure global food supply chain. The event took place in Amsterdam on 8 and 9 September 2015 with approximately 150 attendees, many from leading companies in the food and beverage industry. For the 3rd consecutive year SAFE consortium was a promotional partner for the event and was represented by the attendance of Oddur M. Gunnarsson, SAFE Secretary General and by two SAFE member institutes: Nofima and Nestlé.
SAFE Annual General Meeting Charts Next Year's Course: June 2015
Members of the European Association for Food Safety, SAFE consortium decided last week to reduce membership fees, especially for smaller organisations, in an effort to increase membership. SAFE consortium is a fully independent food safety voice, counting 10 member institutes in 2015, and funded by their annual dues. Dues will be cut in half for some, as the new structure is €1000 per year for academic and governmental organisations with less than 250 employees and €2000 for those with over 250. Several of the smaller SAFE members applauded the change, with Tim Hogg of the School of Biotechnology of the Catholic University of Portugal noting, “The SAFE model of influencing financing for food safety research is useful and we want to stay a part of that.”
SAFE News
SAFE becomes GHI Supporting Organization
SAFE has joined over 20 other groups in becoming a Supporting Organization of the Global Harmonization Initiative, GHI. GHI is an international non-profit network to promote harmonization of global food safety regulations and legislation.
SAFE welcomes its newest member: NIFES
The Norwegian National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES) conducts research on the seafood you eat. The institute studies fish nutrition and the effects of fish and seafood consumption on our health.
NIFES joined the SAFE consortium in June 2016.
Read more about NIFES here.
SAFE Position Paper Released April 2016: Safe Food for the Future
The European Association for Food Safety, SAFE consortium announces the publication of its newest position paper,
Safe Food for the Future
released 29 April 2016.
Read the position paper on ISSUU, here or download the pdf from the SAFE site, Publications, here.
You can read and download this and other SAFE publications on ISSUU or at the Publications tab.
SAFE Joins FACCE-JPI Stakeholder Advisory Board
The SAFE consortium was elected as a member of the Stakeholder Advisory Board of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE) effective January 2016. SAFE joins 15 other food and climate stakeholders in providing advice to increase the relevance of FACCE-JPI work and suggesting ways to further dissemination and impact.
The SAFE consortium representative to the Stakeholder Advisory Board is Irina Smeu of SAFE member IBA in Romania. Read more about IBA here.
Read about the FACCE-JPI here.
SAFE welcomes its newest member: SP Food and Bioscience
SP Food and Bioscience is a unit of the SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden.
They joined the SAFE consortium in January 2016.
Read more about their activities here.
SAFE Video
Chair of the SAFE Executive Board, Begoña Pérez Villarreal, opens the June 4 2013 SAFE event, "Cooking up a storm: Where now for food safety in Europe?".
See the 5 minute video here.
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