Food Safety News No 40
Food Safety News
No 40 - 7 October 2010
Issued by the Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses
World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/foodsafety
foodsafety@who.int
IN THIS ISSUE:
- Applications for Codex Trust Fund support for 2011
- Call for expression of interest to conduct foodborne disease burden studies
- Calls for data for Joint Expert Committees on Food Additives (JECFA)
- New publications available on the web
- FERG Stakeholder Meeting - 11 November 2010
Applications for Codex Trust Fund support for 2011
Codex Trust Fund applications for 2011 are now open. Eligible countries should submit their applications no later than 31 October 2010. For full information please go to the Codex Trust Fund web site. Should you have any queries please contact the Trust Fund secretariat: codextrustfund@who.int
Call for expression of interest to conduct foodborne disease burden studies
The World Health Organization with its Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) will be overseeing the conducting of national foodborne disease burden studies. Countries interested in hosting such studies are requested to respond to a call for expressions of interest on the WHO website before 1 November 2010: http://www.who.int/foodsafety/foodborne_disease/ferg_country_studies/en/.
Contact: Claudia Stein (Tel : +41 22 791 32 34 – E-mail: steinc@who.int)
Calls for data for Joint Expert Committees on Food Additives (JECFA)
The call for data for the 74th JECFA meeting, to be held in Rome, 14-23 June 2011, is accessible at: http://www.who.int/ipcs/food/jecfa/data/en. Relevant information regarding the food additives scheduled for evaluation or re-evaluation should be submitted to the JECFA secretariat before 1 December 2010.
Contact: Angelika Tritscher (Tel: +41 22 791 3569 – E-mail: tritschera@who.int)
New publications available on the web
FAO and WHO recently achieved the revision of Environmental Health Criteria for principles and methods for the risk assessment of chemicals in food. The document "EHC 240" is available on the web: http://www.who.int/ipcs/food/principles/en. Each chapter corresponds to a step of the risk assessment process (e.g. chapter 6, dietary exposure assessment) and can be downloaded separately.
FERG Stakeholder Meeting - 11 November 2010
On the occasion of the FERG 4 meeting, the FERG Stakeholder Meeting will be held on 11 November 2010 at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. This year, more detailed burden of disease results will be made available to the stakeholder community and the concept of the forthcoming country burden of disease studies will be presented and discussed in interactive workshops. More information can be found at: http://www.who.int/foodsafety/foodborne_disease/ferg4_stakeholder/en/.