Food quality and safety

Irrigation equipment testing Desertification and water management Water harvesting technologies Climate monitoring (Risk management) Strategies drought mitigation Refining analytical systems Strategies rehabilitation of degraded lands Efficient irrigation Water recycling

(d) A Unified National Foodstuffs Control System was prepared with the aim of controlling the safety and quality of foodstuffs.

National Agricultural Health and Food Safety Service SENASAG.

Cluster 6 (food security) provided training to improve food security, project management and advocacy in health education.

2.4.2 Supporting cutting edge research in food security and agriculture

At the household level food security is designed to guarantee the whole population physical and financial access to basic foods on a lasting basis.

In Japan, the Food Sanitation Law, often referred to as the Japan Agriculture Standards (JAS), seeks to ensure the safety of goods and sets minimum quality requirements for food agricultural, fishery and forestry products, and regulates the use of food additives.

Codex Alimentarius was established by FAO and the World Health Organization (WHO) to set safety standards in the food trade.

(c) Maintenance of food and storage safety, with special focus on the Agency's 10 warehouses, 57 food distribution centres and 128 distribution points

There is a general increase in food insecurity and a severe shortage of drinking water, as well as a decline in food consumption and nutritional levels.

(6) Any containers, packagings, utensils and equipment used for the storage, transportation, loading and unloading of food as well as the conditions under which these operations are carried out must be safe, harmless and kept clean in order to prevent food contamination

Europe and the Global Food Crisis

Accordingly, the Codex Alimentarius Commission5 has adopted principles for risk analysis of such substances in general, as well as guidelines for food safety assessment of foods derived from recombinant DNA plants and from recombinant DNA micro organisms.

Even now, there is enough food in the world, with a bumper harvest this year, but more people cannot afford to buy the food they need. Addressing this growing crisis is the aim of the Global Conference on Food Security in Rome on June 3 5.

(1) Food Security

Food security

In order to make the products of the food processing industries competitive on the world market, UNIDO will provide assistance in food safety and quality through specifically designed projects targeting the deficiencies of individual food industry subsectors.

In addition to international instruments (such as the Codex Alimentarius), industrialized countries applied domestic guidelines (such as those of the United States Food and Drug Administration) to regulate safety, health, environmental considerations, packaging, animal health, and labelling of food imports.

The rising costs of food, declining food security, lower production costs and cutbacks in public subsidies on basic foodstuffs are also obstacles to the realization of the right to adequate food.

Indigenous Foods and Local Food Security

8. The participants recognized that in the food processing sector, packaging, labelling and food safety standards were of special importance in a number of export markets, especially in the OECD countries.

Resolve to integrate food and nutritional support, with the goal that all people at all times will have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences, for an active and healthy life, as part of a comprehensive response to HIV AIDS

In the Programme of Action, forests are linked to other issues, including agriculture, food security and climate change.

Nutrition and Food Security

Food for vulnerable groups is also being provided by WFP for therapeutic purposes and as a safety net.

Article 18 Enterprises engaged in food production or marketing shall improve their own system for food hygiene control, appoint full time or part time workers to control food hygiene and strengthen inspection of the foods they produce or market.

Because there is no shortage of food worldwide, combating hunger implies providing people with the means of acquiring food.

The most common items whisked past TSA agents on purpose were food and liquids.

The Road to Food Security

(e) Food security and agriculture

(8) foods processed with non food raw materials foods mixed with non food chemical substances, or non food stuffs used as food

Food contamination has always been a current topic, and these days even more, when WHO is introducing the notion of safe foodstuffs .

Food security went beyond the problem of production, since it involved access and distribution, including international trade in food and other commodities.

Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 543 II on the quality and safety of food products, of 8 April 2004

February Ad hoc Group of Experts on Science and Technology for Food Security Food Security and Sustainable Development Division

In order to improve food security, especially in some developing countries that remain food insecure, there is a need to significantly increase food supply and improve food distribution through more sustainable agricultural systems.

105. In agriculture and the food industry, besides the nationwide legal regulations concerning occupational safety and health protection, there is also branch legislation in the field of occupational safety and health.

Women have built partnerships with local road transport operators to facilitate movement of their products to markets in other regions and in Conakry.

During that period, WFP lent its support mainly to rural development, food security, the health system and school cafeterias by providing supplies to hospitals, health centres and primary schools.

Its emergency response and preparedness framework consisted of comprehensive food security and vulnerability analysis a food security monitoring system early warning and contingency planning emergency food security assessment and response planning.

A second argument is that we do not know enough about the effects and side effects. Since some of the groups opposing GM organisms destroy the field trials that could give us more knowledge, a more pertinent argument might be that many opponents do not want us to know more.

(a) The food security programme. This will support building and enhancing critical capacities for sustained food security.

Gedo is beset with the highest malnutrition rates in Somalia (up to 23 per cent), based in part on chronic food insecurity.

Ethiopian efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals were contingent on the achievement of food security.