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SAFE Announcements and Events:
- SAFE at INCReASE: 11-13 Oct 2017
SAFE consortium will participate in the International Congress on Engineering and Sustainability in the XXIst Century to be held at the University of Algarve in Faro PT.The SAFE Scientific Secretary, Katherine M Flynn, is an invited speaker on Food Safety under the Healthy Foods topic.
Registration is ongoing for this interesting and timely event.
See you there!
- SAFE Food Safety Workshop: 18 Oct 2017
"Natural and Microbial Food Contaminants: Riskier Than We Think" is the title of the 2017 SAFE consortium food safety workshop set for WEDNESDAY 18 OCTOBER from 13H15 to 15H30 in BRUSSELS.Europeans tend to be concerned about chemical contaminants in food, believing that natural and microbial contaminants are of little risk. Experts state the opposite: food microbes and their toxins can have severe health consequences. This workshop aims at strengthening the understanding of natural and microbial food contamination, debunking the myths around the word 'natural' and bringing much needed attention to this often-overlooked food risk.
Download the draft programme here.
The workshop is free. More information will be available here soon.
- SAFE Executive Board Meetings 2017-20 SEPTEMBER
The upcoming 2017 meetings of the SAFE consortium Executive Board will be by teleconference on
Wednesday 20 September at 13H CET
Wednesday 18 October at 13H CET
Log in as a SAFE member to download the Agenda and the Minutes of all SAFE EB meetings. Also available are the Agenda and the Minutes of all SAFE Member Meetings, including the Annual General Meetings. Once logged in, these documents become visible as a separate article in Past Events.
If your institution is a SAFE member but you don't have a User Name and Password - send an email to Katherine Flynn with your 3 food safety interests and you will be registered.
If your institution is not a SAFE member - you will find information here on how to apply.
Welcome!
The European Association for Food Safety, the SAFE consortium celebrates 15 years of KEEPING FOOD SAFETY ON THE AGENDA in October 2017. SAFE has become the independent food safety voice in Europe.
SAFE is a platform of research bodies: Full members are academic and governmental organisations that do food safety R&D or other technolgoy-related services as their primary activity. Associate members are food-related industries that have activities related to food safety.
SAFE is an international non-profit organisation acting as an independent spokesman for food safety research in Europe to the benefit of the public.
SAFE Food Safety Workshop: 18 Oct 2017
"Natural and Microbial Food Contaminants: Riskier Than We Think" is the title of the 2017 SAFE consortium food safety workshop set for WEDNESDAY 18 OCTOBER from 13H15 to 15H30 in BRUSSELS.
Europeans tend to be concerned about chemical contaminants in food, believing that natural and microbial contaminants are of little risk. Experts state the opposite: food microbes and their toxins can have severe health consequences. This workshop aims at strengthening the understanding of natural and microbial food contamination, debunking the myths around the word 'natural' and bringing much needed attention to this often-overlooked food risk.
Download the draft programme here.
The workshop is free. More information will be available here soon.
SAFE joins ActInPak Action
SAFE consortium was invited to join the ongoing COST Action ActInPak, Active and Intelligent Fibre-Based Packaging in January 2017. SAFE brings its expertise in European food safety to this packaging initiative.
Many thanks to the Action Leader, Sanne Tiekstra of Bumaga NL for the invitation.
SAFE RELEASES WORKSHOP SUMMARY: Food-Related Health Risks and Technologies to Increase Food Safety
SAFE partnered with the Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) panel of the European Parliament to organise a holistic workshop on food safety issues of today.
The 20 October 2016 workshop was widely viewed as a success, with expert speakers from academia, industry, national research centres and the European Commission and over 100 attendees.
Read about the workshop, including a link to the presentations here.
SAFE consortium, with a generous partial sponsorship from BASF SE, wrote an engaging and readable summary of the event which was published in February 2017.
Download the Workshop Summary here.
Read the Workshop Summary on ISSUU here.
SAFE EVENT 2016: Safe Food for the Future. 21 Oct
The safety of foods of the future and of emerging bio-based food technologies needs immediate and constant attention. SAFE consortium held a relevant workshop at the 8th International Food Factory for the Future conference, Food Factory 2016, in Laval France.
Download the final SAFE programme here.
SAFE members, log in to view and download the presentations on the SAFE Past Events page.
This 
workshop was sponsored in part by the genorosity of Elsevier and in particular their International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science. Thank you!
SAFE welcomes its newest member: NIFES
In June 2016, The Norwegian National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES) became a full member of The European Association for Food Safety, SAFE consortium. NIFES conducts research on the seafood you eat. The institute studies fish nutrition and the effects of fish and seafood consumption on our health.
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 News
SAFE joins ActInPak Action
SAFE consortium was invited to join the ongoing COST Action ActInPak, Active and Intelligent Fibre-Based Packaging in January 2017. SAFE brings its expertise in European food safety to this packaging initiative.
Many thanks to the Action Leader, Sanne Tiekstra of Bumaga NL for the invitation.
SAFE RELEASES WORKSHOP SUMMARY: Food-Related Health Risks and Technologies to Increase Food Safety
SAFE partnered with the Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) panel of the European Parliament to organise a holistic workshop on food safety issues of today.
The 20 October 2016 workshop was widely viewed as a success, with expert speakers from academia, industry, national research centres and the European Commission and over 100 attendees.
Read about the workshop, including a link to the presentations here.
SAFE consortium, with a generous partial sponsorship from BASF SE, wrote an engaging and readable summary of the event which was published in February 2017.
Download the Workshop Summary here.
Read the Workshop Summary on ISSUU here.
SAFE announces a new Secretary General
SAFE becomes GHI Supporting Organization
In July 2016, SAFE consortium 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 active in FOODforce
FOODforce is a network of leading European research provider organisations active in the areas of food, nutrition and health.
As of June 2016, SAFE consortium is now active as an Associated Organisation with this important network. SAFE contributed to the FOODforce Position Paper released in summer 2016 and to the FOODforce response to the Public Consultation on Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2, "Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy".
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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