Press Release: Better Training for Safer Food: Commission publishes first annual report

The European Commission's Better Training for Safer Food initiative got off to a strong start in 2006, with 1400 participants from around 100 countries attending workshops on a wide variety of topics linked to EU food and feed controls. The aim of the training workshops is to ensure that official control authorities fully understand and properly enforce EU food and feed law, animal health and welfare rules and plant health legislation. The first annual report on Better Training for Safer Food, which was published on 24 May 2007, gives a detailed outline of the training activities carried out in 2006. It also provides some information on the feedback that the Commission received from attendees. Finally, the report describes the planned programme for 2007 and looks at how future training programmes should be carried out in order to achieve the best results.

European Commission: DG Communication: MEMO/07/204 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/07/204&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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