1. Food safety issues
"Food safety" is sometimes replaced by "food security", a term which can be a source of confusion, as it refers to the security of the food supply. "Sécurité sanitaire des aliments" actually stands for "food safety", sometimes translated as "salubrity".
1.1 A public health issue
Food safety is a major issue (Conseil économique et social, 2001). It is first and foremost a public health issue. It is difficult to count the number of deaths, illnesses and temporary disorders of varying degrees of severity that are directly attributable to food and, even more so, to food as a whole: monitoring and diagnosis are difficult because the effects can be spatially disseminated, delayed in time, and non-specific. The causes of these...
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Bibliography
Standardization
Association Française de Normalisation AFNOR
Quality – Management systems and auditing – NF EN ISO 9000 and NF EN ISO 19011 (2003), ISBN 2-12-217611-3.
Outils de maîtrise de la sécurité alimentaire en IAA (2000), ISBN 2-12-053511-6.
Food microbiology – Volume 1: horizontal...
Public authorities and institutions
Ministry of Agriculture and Food
French Food Directorate (DGAl) http://www.agriculture.gouv.fr/alim/pres/welcome.html
Deconcentrated levels: regional and departmental directorates of agriculture, departmental veterinary services, regional plant protection services...
Professional organizations
Technical Coordination Association for the Agrifood Industry (ACTIA) http://www.actia.asso.fr
National Association of Food Industries (ANIA) http://www.ania.net/accueil/accueil/htm
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