SAFE Announcements and Events:
- SAFE Special Issue in TIFS. February 2019
SAFE consortium members will publish a Special Issue of Trends in Food Science &Technology as one of the first issues of TIFS 2019.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 April 2019 in Brussels. 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.
Register here.
- SAFE Executive Board and Member Meetings 2018-January
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.
- INCREaSE 2019: 9-11 Oct 2019
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 from 8-11 October 2019.
The SAFE Secretary General, Katherine M Flynn, is a member of the Scientific Committee.
Read about SAFE participation in INCREaSE 2017 here.
Abstract submission is now open!
Hope to see you at INCREaSE 2019!
Location/Contact
The SAFE office is essentially virtual, we are each based at our respective institutions located throughout Europe. Visit the SAFE Members page to see where we are.
If you are in the area of the Executive Board President ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , AZTI-Tecnalia, Bilbao Spain) or Vice President ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Catholic University of Portugal, Porto Portugal) or SAFE consortium Secretary General ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Matis, Reykjavik Iceland), please come by for a visit.
We do maintain a mailing address and a seldom used office space in Brussels.
SAFE consortium
Rue Vanderborght 20
1081 Brussels Belgium
Please don't hesitate to send an e-mail to the office responsibles if you have any comments or inquiries.
Secretary General: Dr. Hrönn O. Jörundsdóttir
Mobile: + 354 858 5112
Mail:
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Scientific Secretary: Dr. Katherine Flynn
Mobile: + 33 669 10 71 77 (France) or + 1 347 583 6473 (USA)
Mail:
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Interesting Notes
Do you work for a SAFE consortium member institute?
Register as an Individual Member of the SAFE consortium and access Member's Only pages including downloads of documents and presentations, plus receive SAFE announcements directly by email !
Registration is simple. Send an email to the SAFE Scientific Secretary, Katherine Flynn, from your institution email address and include your three Food Safety interests.
