SAFE Announcements and Events:
- Global Food Safety Summit: 12-13 Sept 2018
Managing a safe and secure global food supply chain from farm to fork!
As in previous years, this event will bring together key stakeholders from all along several food chains including manufacturers, suppliers, regulators and the experts that support them. Highlights of the event include case study experiences. Networking opportunities are plentiful as representatives from major food and beverage producers, suppliers and retailers will participate.
Read about last year's summit, including a link to the SAFE consortium presentation given by SAFE Executive Board member Oddur Gunnarsson from Matis Ltd., Iceland here.
SAFE members enjoy a special reduced registration, 20% off with code TSC20 and 30% off for groups of 3+ with code TSC30.
See the event programme here.
Read more about the event and link to the registration here.
- Biotechnology and Quality of Raw Materials and Foodstuffs: 17-19 Sept 2018
The Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences of the Slovak University of Agriculture at Nitra, a SAFE member since January 2018, announces the 13th International Conference on Biotechnology and Quality of Raw Materials and Foodstuffs. SAFE consortium Scientific Secretary will give a Plenary Lecture, Sparking New Life into Food Safety Research.The conference will take place from 17-19 September 2018 at the Smolenice Castle in Smolenice, Slovak Republic. Sessions include
- Biotechnology and Molecular Biology
- Food Design and Innovation
- Personalized Nutrition and Health
- Innovation Trends in Food Industry
Abstracts for poster and oral presentations will be accepted until July 31 2018. Following, papers will be published in the Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences. See instructions for authors.
Look forward to meeting you there!
- SAFE Special Issue in TIFS. Autumn 2018
SAFE consortium members will publish a Special Issue of Trends in Food Science &Technology in autumn 2018.Keeping Food Safety on the Agenda for 15 Years: The SAFE Consortium
There are five food safety themes in the Special Issue, each led by a SAFE member:
- The Circular Bioeconomy, by Matis Ltd in Iceland
- Safe Nutrients, by IBA in Romania
- Emerging Microbial Threats, by CNR-DiSBA in Italy
- Chemical Hazards, by AZTI in Spain
- Risk Communication, by Nofima in Norway
The release EVENT will take place in Brussels in autumn 2018. Stay tuned for further information.
- GHI Congress on Food Safety and Security: 24 March 2019
The Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI) is an international non-profit network founded in 2004 to promote harmonization of global food safety regulations and legislation. Read more about GHI here.
GHI will hold its first World Congress to address the problem of differences in regulations between countries and scientifically unjustified food scares which lead to the destruction and/or refusal of safe food. Read more about the Congress here.
The GHI World Congress will be a platform for presenting the most suitable assays for food safety assessments within different fileds - chemistry and microbiology to genetic toxicology and genomics. Congress participants will produce a declaration which calls for and establishes a target to change regulations based on available knowledge.
SAFE consortium is a GHI Supporting Organization.
Early bird registration is open, €595 before 1 Oct. Register here.
- SAFE Executive Board and Member Meetings 2018-19 JUNE
The upcoming 2018 meetings of the SAFE consortium Executive Board will be by teleconference in
TUESDAY 19 June at 15H 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!
In 2017, The European Association for Food Safety, SAFE consortium celebrated 15 years of Keeping Food Safety on the Agenda. SAFE has become the independent food safety voice in Europe.
SAFE Releases Workshop Summary: Natural and Microbial Food Contaminants
April 2018 release of a summary paper from the October 2017 SAFE consortium food safety workshop, "Natural and Microbial Food Contaminant: Riskier Than We Think?". Read it here.
This 4-page glossy is from the 1 1/2 hour workshop which featured the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis as keynote speaker and the Member of European Parliament Christofer Fjellner as host.
Read more about the workshop here, including links to presentations and related publications.
See the 3 1/2 minute summary video of the workshop here.
SAFE welcomes 3 new members in Jan 2018: SUA, KTU and HES-SO
The following three institutes were accepted as full members of the SAFE consortium at the December 2017 Annual General Member's Meeting:
The Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences of the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra (SUA).
The Food Institute of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in Lithuania.
The Institute of Life Technologies of the School of Engineering of the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland-Valais Wallis (HES-SO).
These institutes are free to publish in the public interest and each presented a bibliography of high quality publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals authored by numerous scientists at their respective institutes.
The memberships begin January 2018 and we look forward to successful collaboration. Welcome!
SAFE Special Issue in TIFS. Autumn 2018
SAFE consortium members will publish a Special Issue of Trends in Food Science &Technology in autumn 2018.
Keeping Food Safety on the Agenda for 15 Years: The SAFE Consortium
There are five food safety themes in the Special Issue, each led by a SAFE member:
- The Circular Bioeconomy, by Matis Ltd in Iceland
- Safe Nutrients, by IBA in Romania
- Emerging Microbial Threats, by CNR-DiSBA in Italy
- Chemical Hazards, by AZTI in Spain
- Risk Communication, by Nofima in Norway
The release EVENT will take place in Brussels in autumn 2018. Stay tuned for further information.
SAFE Food Safety Workshop: 18 Oct 2017
"Natural and Microbial Food Contaminants: Riskier Than We Think?" was the title of the 2017 SAFE consortium food safety workshop which took place WEDNESDAY 18 OCTOBER from 13H15 to 15H30 at the Radisson Red Hotel in BRUSSELS (just across from the European Parliament).
Christofer Fjellner, Member of European Parliament was the host and Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health & Food Safety gave the keynote address.
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 aimed 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.
Keep reading to download the programme, the workshop booklet, the speaker presentations, the video summary, the print summary and related publications.
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 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 Releases Workshop Summary: Natural and Microbial Food Contaminants
April 2018 release of a summary paper from the October 2017 SAFE consortium food safety workshop, "Natural and Microbial Food Contaminant: Riskier Than We Think?". Read it here.
This 4-page glossy is from the 1 1/2 hour workshop which featured the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis as keynote speaker and the Member of European Parliament Christofer Fjellner as host.
Read more about the workshop here, including links to presentations and related publications.
See the 3 1/2 minute summary video of the workshop here.
Natural Contaminants Workshop Video Released
January 2018 release of the highlight video from the October 2017 SAFE consortium food safety workshop, 'Natural and Microbial Food Contaminants: Riskier Than We Think?'. Watch 3 1/2 minutes of highlights from the 1 1/2 hour workshop featuring Member of European Parliament Christofer Fjellner and European Commissioner for Health & Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis.
See the 3.5 minute video here.
SAFE welcomes 3 new members in Jan 2018: SUA, KTU and HES-SO
The following three institutes were accepted as full members of the SAFE consortium at the December 2017 Annual General Member's Meeting:
The Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences of the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra (SUA).
The Food Institute of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in Lithuania.
The Institute of Life Technologies of the School of Engineering of the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland-Valais Wallis (HES-SO).
These institutes are free to publish in the public interest and each presented a bibliography of high quality publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals authored by numerous scientists at their respective institutes.
The memberships begin January 2018 and we look forward to successful collaboration. Welcome!
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.
Video Release !
January 2018 release of the highlight video from the October 2017 SAFE consortium food safety workshop, 'Natural and Microbial Food Contaminants: Riskier Than We Think?'. Watch 3 1/2 minutes of highlights from the 1 1/2 hour workshop featuring Member of European Parliament Christofer Fjellner and European Commissioner for Health & Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis.
See the 3.5 minute video here.
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