Stykkisholmur, Iceland, June 19th 2008:

has now launched its second transnational call on food safety issues

On Friday January the 11th there was a meeting about MRSA and antibiotic resistance in the Netherlands. The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality organised the meeting for several interested SAFEFOODERA participants. Italy, France, Germany, England, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands were represented.

The meeting resulted with eleven topics for promising joint activities. The following step will be prioritization and clustering of the topics.
Looking back we think we had a successful meeting and we look forward for further cooperation.

Organizers,

Jan Lambers and Mirjam Snijdelaar

The 5th SAFEFOODERA European Steering Committee (ESC) meeting was held 27-28 September 2007 in Bilbao, Basque Country. The main topic discussed was the sustainability of SAFEFOODERA, including:

The meeting was prolonged with a fantastic roundtrip to Rioja Alavesa and the wonderful city of San Sebastian, guided by Monica de Prado.

The last SAFEFOODERA ESC-meeting will be in Reykjavik, Iceland, in June 2008

An extraordinary PMG-meeting was held in Reykjavik, Iceland 18 - 19 April 2007 to discuss a strategy for bringing SAFEOODERA from a project to a sustainable organisation by:

1. Examining the feasibility of establishing a global system of food safety research hubs.
2. Investigate the potential to use these hubs as an aid to developing a globally facing research program to address transnational food safety priorities in Europe.
3. Deepening the research platform (being established in Safefoodera) to proactively describe new or re-emerging chemical and/or microbial risks from farm to fork and fish to dish.
4. Ensure that there is linkage to other relevant European and non-European food safety research initiatives with regard to the planning of future transnational research.
5. Maximise the opportunity for creating added value at national level by developing further transnational calls, including the processes for identifying the priority topics and the management of the calls.