Presentation about food safety issue and sanitary & phytosanitary (SPS) agreement. Submission date: 12th March, 2019. Course: Post Harvest Technology; Code: FISH-213.

1. Presentation on
Food Safety Issue, and Sanitary and Phytosanitary
(SPS) Agreement
Presented by:
No
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Name Id
01 Mishal Roy 17207017
02 Samia Sultana 17207103
03 Munna Das 17207089
Presented to:
Mrs. Aysha Akhtar
Assistant Professor
Institute of Marine Sciences
University of Chittagong
Course: Post Harvest Technology
Code: FISH-213
Date: 12nd March, 2019

2. Food Safety
Food safety is a scientific discipline describing handling, preparation,
and storage of food in ways that prevent food-borne illness.
The five key principles of food hygiene, according to WHO,
are:
• Prevent contaminating food with pathogens spreading from people,
pets, and pests.
• Separate raw and cooked foods to prevent contaminating the cooked
foods.
• Cook foods for the appropriate length of time and at the appropriate
temperature to kill pathogens.
• Store food at the proper temperature.
• Use safe water and safe raw materials.

3. Food safety issues and regulations concern:
• Agriculture and animal husbandry practices
• Food manufacturing practices
• Food additives
• Genetically modified foods
• Food label
• Food contamination

4. Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS)
Agreement
The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and
Phytosanitary Measure also known as SPS Agreement, is
an international treaty of the World Trade Organization. It
was negotiated during the Uruguay Round of the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and entered into force with
the establishment of the WTO at the beginning of 1995.

5. There are 3 standards organization who set standards that
WTO members should base their SPS methodologies on.
They are the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex),
World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and the
Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention
(IPPC).

6. Sanitary:
It relating to health or the conditions affecting
health, especially with reference to cleanliness,
precautions against disease.
Phytosanitary:
It relating to health of plants, especially with
respect to the requirement of international trade.

7. 1.Non-Discrimination
2.Scientific Justification
- Harmonization
- Risk assessment
- Consistency
3. Equivalence
4. Transparency
5. Technical Assistance/Special Treatment
Key Provisions of the SPS Agreement

8. SPS Agreement Helps
To provide greater choice of safe foods
To support the international competition
To the greater transparency in governmental
procedures
To available information for importers
To eliminate the trade barriers
Beneficiaries of the SPS Agreement
The Consumers
The Exporters of the agricultural products
The Importers of food & other agriculture products

9. Conclusion
To establish a multilateral framework of rules and
disciplines to guide the development, adoption and
enforcement of sanitary and phytosanitary measures
necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health;
to harmonise these measures between the States so as to
minimize their negative impact on trade liberalization and
world trade.

10. Reference
• Texas Food Establishment Rules. Texas DSHS website: Texas
Department of State Health Services. 2015. p. 6.
• "Prevention of foodborne disease: Five keys to safer food". World
Health Organization. Retrieved 2010-12-10.
• "Report for Congress: Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs,
and Laws, 2005 Edition" by Jasper Womach.
• UNCTAD's Classification of Non-Tariff Measures (2012)

11. Thanks to all