Food safety: a global view

Food safety is a significant public health issue for all the governments around the world. According to the World Health Organization, food safety has been identified as a public health priority as unsafe food causes serious illness in millions of people every year and many deaths.
The globalization of markets, together with the development of new techniques of processing, packaging, storage and transportation has caused deep changes in the global food production and distribution, boosting world food trade.
This new scenario poses emerging challenges to food safety and calls governments all over the world to face the need for global management strategies.
Building capacity to ensure food safety represents a shared responsibility between all the stakeholders: governments, inter-governmental organizations, producers, consumers and scientists.
Thus, effective implementation of common strategies will require strengthened partnerships between international organizations involved in food safety and between agencies at the national level, as well as the improvement of public awareness and consumers’ education.
In this context, international meeting and networking are a means to address these issues and share different experiences and approaches.

Programme

9:15
Introduction
Prof. Alessandra Guidi
University of Pisa
Department of Veterinary Science
Prorector for Internationalization

9:30
The Italian model within the EU approach to food safety
Prof. Francesco di Iacovo
University of Pisa
Animal Health Economics
President of Zooprophylactic Institute Lazio and Tuscany

10:00
The food safety in China from the legal perspective
Prof Wu Xueyan
Chongqing University
Co-director of Pisa Confucius Institute

10:30
Food safety in the EU. The good, the bad, the ugly
Prof. Beniamino Cenci Goga
University of Perugia
Director of Master Veterinary Public Health and Food Hygiene

11:00
Coffee break

11:15
Safety issues for crops, fruit and vegetables in China
Prof. Liu Yang
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Institute of Food Science and Technology
Department of Food safety & Quality Control

11:45
Alternative to chemicals to control fruit postharvest decay: effects on quality
Prof. Pietro Tonutti
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Institute of Life Science
Delegate of the Rector for International affairs

12:00
Dairy industry perspectives and challenges in the USA
Prof. Paul Rossitto
University of California, Davis
Dairy Food Safety Laboratory

12:30
Food safety and informal markets - A South African perspective
Prof. Musafiri Karama
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Director of Department of Paraclinical Science

13:00
Discussion