Publikationsdatenbank

European risk-based meat safety assurance system:
the role of RIBMINS (2020)

Art

Vortrag

Autoren

Blagojevic, Bojan

Nesbakken, Truls

Alvseike, Ole

Vågsholm, Ivar

Antic, Dragan

Johler, Sophia

Houf, Kurt

Meemken, Diana (WE 8)

Nastasijevic, Ivan

Vieira Pinto, Madalena

Antunovic, Boris

Alban, Lis

Kongress

RIBMINS Conference + MC Meeting : risk-based meat inspection and integrated meat safety assurance

online, 15. – 16.10.2020

Quelle

RIBMINS Scientific Conference of COST Action 18105 "Risk-based meat inspection and integrated meat safety assurance" : 15-16 October 2020 - online : book of abstracts — Sophia Johler, Lis Alban & Bojan Blagojevic (Hrsg.)

— S. 10

Sprache

Englisch

Verweise

URL (Volltext): https://ribmins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/RIBMINS-Conference-2020-Book-of-Abstracts.pdf

Kontakt

Institut für Lebensmittelsicherheit und -hygiene

Königsweg 69
14163 Berlin
+49 30 838 62551 / 52790
lebensmittelhygiene@vetmed.fu-berlin.de / fleischhygiene@vetmed.fu-berlin.de

Abstract / Zusammenfassung

The traditional meat safety system has significantly contributed to public health protection through the last century. However, it has also been recognised that this system suffers many flaws – the main being its limited ability to control the current meat-borne hazards. The process of its evolution to the modern, risk-based system is driven by science as well as political and stakeholders' interests. More than a decade ago, the European Commission requested that the European Food Safety Authority evaluate meat inspection in a public health context, prioritise meat-borne hazards and propose a generic framework of a new, risk-based meat safety assurance system. The proposed system is longitudinally integrated and incorporates official meat inspection with producers’ food safety management systems into a coherent whole. The system’s practical implementation is expected to be a slow and careful process followed by thorough development, fine-tuning, and testing of practical feasibility and general impacts. The initial implementation of the system has recently started
as a direct result of changes of relevant legislation in the European Union. Many challenges have emerged and several threats are foreseen. Further progress that will lead to the full implementation is dependent on intensive research to collect data and fill knowledge gaps as well as on training the new system’s participants. Strengthening the links between scientists, competent authorities and food business operators is a cornerstone of functionality of the new system. Therefore, recently, a network of representatives of these groups has been established through the COST Action RIBMINS, “Risk-based meat inspection and integrated meat safety assurance”. The network aims to combine and strengthen European-wide research efforts on modern meat safety controls, and thus, help implementation of the risk-based meat safety assurance system across Europe.