Food Safety

COORDINATION:

Professor Ana Cameán
Professor of Toxicology
University of Seville

Email: camean@us.es

OBJECTIVES:

• To promote the study, research and dissemination of all scientific and social aspects of food security in relation to xenobiotics present in food or formed.
• Promote coordination between teams of teachers from the different faculties which are taught subjects related to toxicology and food safety in order to unify criteria.
• Promote collaboration between research groups, professionals and organizations on Food Safety.
• Offer advice, at the institutional level, be required of the subjects of Food Safety and Toxicology in your relationship with food.
• Participate and collaborate in all activities promote, The organic or participle AETOX, or its various sections and working groups, in addressing issues of interest or knowledge of the Food Safety Section.
• Engage the AETOX, its sections or working groups in all those activities that promote Food Safety Section, organize or participate in and be of interest or knowledge of these.
• Promoting specialized training in Food Safety and Toxicology in your relationship with food.

DOCUMENTS:

• Articles of Incorporation.
• Conference on antioxidants and food and environmental toxic. Oia (Pontevedra). 27 June 2008.
• Roundtable: “Present and Future Food Security in Spain”.
• Book Presentation: “Food Toxicology”, Madrid 6 October 2006.

NEWS:

• Master in Food Safety. Registration from 1 October 2009. Dept.. Nutrition and Food Science, Toxicology and Legal Medicine. Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Seville. Download Brochure. 01/10/09.
• Statement from the Junta de Andalucia on the detection in the province of Málaga three frozen items suspected of being affected by contamination with dioxins. 14/12/08.
• Measures relating to the situation of dioxins according to the Cité on the Food Chain and Environmental Health (SCoFCAH), after the declaration of Risk Assessment for EFSA.14/12/08 rezlizada.
• EFSA sets out the risks to public health due to the presence of dioxins in pigs from Ireland. 11/12/08.
• Dioxin food alert. Summary by Monica Fernandez Franzone, Secretary of Food Safety Section and supervised by Guillermina Pérez Font, President of the Spanish Association of Toxicology. 11/12/08.
• The European Food Safety (EFSA) will produce a report on the situation created by contaminated meat and health risks. EFSA will develop an urgent report on the situation caused by contaminated meat and health risks to be published as soon as possible, at the request of the last request being made 8 December by the European Commission. 11/12/08.
• According AESAN, The European Commission confirms that Spain is not among the countries that have received contaminated pork from Ireland. In the news section of the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition has included this morning the news of the presence of dioxins in pork from Ireland. 11/12/08.
• Food safety authority of Ireland (with questions and answers updated). 11/12/08.