The document discusses food safety and its importance to achieving the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) strategic goals. It outlines FAO's food safety strategy and key areas of focus, which include strengthening national food regulation, supporting science-based governance, enhancing safety along food chains, and developing intelligence. The Committee on Agriculture is asked to endorse FAO's strategy and provide guidance on challenges like increasing scientific advice demands and addressing antimicrobial resistance. Improving global food safety requires aligned national regulations and FAO has an important role in providing scientific advice.

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2. Presented To:
Mam Nida Kanwal
Presented By: Group No. 13
Kainat Shahid 18-26
Iqra Mirza 18-22
Muqaddas Ashraf 18-37
BS.HND (5th MA)
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3. Contents
 Introduction
 What is food security according to FAO?
 Food safety: Why is it central to FAO’s main goal?
 The FAO’s food safety strategy & areas of Focus
 Issues for considering by COAG
 Conclusion
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4. Introduction
 The 19th session of the committee on agriculture on
April 2005 endorsed the FAO food chain Approach for
safe & nutritious food.
 Changing in environmental or technological context
had impact on main diverse of food safety concerns.
This create new challenge for FAO.
 FAO identified the food safety areas and support the
achievement of organizations strategic objective.
 The new food safety strategy has been developed to
guide a process of re-orientation & re-organization
that will facilitate the optimal contribution of the food
safety program.
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5. What is food security according to
FAO?
 “Food security exists when all people, at all times,
have physical, social and economic access to sufficient,
safe and nutritious food which meets their dietary
needs and food preferences for an active and healthy
life.”
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6. Food safety: Why is it central to
FAO’s Main Goals?
Food & Nutrition Security
Reducing Rural Poverty
Efficient & inclusive Food system
Sustainable food production
Prevention of food chain emergencies & improving resilience
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7. Food & Nutrition Security
 Food safety plays an important role in improving food
& nutrition security.
 Exposure to chemical hazards continues to be a
widespread concern, especially to the smallholder
farmers & consumers in the developing countries.
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8. Reducing Rural Poverty
 The food and agriculture sector is an important engine
for growth in many developing countries; agriculture
contributes as much as 30 percent to gross domestic
product & an ever bigger share of employment,
particularly in rural areas.
 The committee on fisheries (COF) has highlighted the
importance of FAO technical assistance to developing
countries to promote adherence to food safety
requirements specially by small-scale fisheries.
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9. Sustainable food production
 Promoting sustainable intensification is an essential
aspect of SO2 and the safety of the resulting foods is
an essential consideration.
 Furthermore, potential benefits of new technologies
applied to the food chain will only be realized if there
is public confidence that the technologies are safe.
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10. Efficient & inclusive Food system
 Food safety makes a major contribution to improving
efficient & inclusiveness of food system which is the
objective of SO4.
 Agreed international standards underlie an efficient
system of international trade.
 A recent survey by the International Trade Centre has
shown that food businesses in developing countries
consider food safety requirements as a major
challenge.
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11. Prevention of food chain
emergencies & improving
resilience
 Food safety is a key consideration in most food chain
emergencies
 The food safety program is expected to contribute to
better global food chain intelligence that could
facilitate early warning & prevention of emergencies.
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12. The FAO’s Food safety strategy &
areas of Focus
 Strengthening national food control regulatory
capacities & global trade facilitation
 supporting steady improvement of national food
control system
Supporting the global trade facilitation agenda
 Supporting science based food safety governance
& decisions
Scientific advice to codex
Scientific advice to countries & partners
Effective participation in Codex
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13. Cont…
 Enhancing food safety management along food
chains
Prevention is the ultimate goal of food control & is
only possible if food producers and food businesses are
correctly implementing effective programs of food
safety management.
 Providing food safety platforms & databases
Databases supporting food safety management
Platforms for communication
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14. Cont…
 Developing food safety intelligence & foresight
It play a major role in the collection, analysis and
communication of food chain intelligence
A preliminary review showed that a number of FAO
units are involved in various formal & informal
foresight activities that could identify issues of food
control regulatory significance.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one emerging issue
of global concern.
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15. Issues for considering By COAG
 The committee on agriculture may wish to:
1. Endorse the key areas of work identified as the core of the
FAO food safety strategy
2. Support a greater role for FAO in Trade Facilitation
Programs as an important means for supporting the
delivery of FAO’s food safety strategy
3. Advice on how to meet the challenge of growing
demands on FAO’s food safety scientific advice programs
4. Advice on FAO’s role in contributing to global food chain
intelligence and provide guidance on the role of FAO in
assisting countries to contain the growing threat of AMR.
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16. Conclusion
 Improvements in global food safety will only be
achieved if countries can implement good practices
and enforce national regulations that are aligned with
international requirements.
 FAO’s new strategic framework strengthens its singular
leadership role in addressing the agriculture
dimensions of the global trade.
 As a knowledge organization and as a neutral inter-
governmental forum, FAO has a critical role in the
provision of reliable, trusted & globally-relevant
scientific advice to underpin food safety management.
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17. References
 http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/
 https://www.google.com.pk/search?source=hp&ei=jFb
OX96MEuORlwSOsrBg&q=FAO+regarding+food+sec
urity+&oq=FAO+regarding+food+security
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