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Feeding the world
Sub-theme 6
Session 15
From farm to fork: a profession at the center of the food chain
Coretti Cosimo Damiano, CONAF
(Coordinator of the Department of Food Safety)
What is Food Safety?Food safety is the positive result that flows from
the activities of all the actors involved in the complex chain of agricultural production,
processing, transportation, preparation, storage and consumption.
Food Safety = healthy food
“White Paper” on food safety
(EU, 2000)
European Policy on Food Safety
What is the “White Paper”?
It is a policy document that aims to ensure, as a key strategic priority, a high level of
food safety.
In chap. 2, Section 8 reads: "the principle of the White Paper is that food safety policy must be based on a comprehensive and integrated approach", such that it should cover the entire food chain in its different phases, the participants and all sectors concerned.
Fundamental principles :
• The creation of a European Food Authority, autonomous;
• An improved legal framework covering all aspects related to food products from "farm to table";
Reg.CE 178/2002, Reg.CE 852/2004, Reg.CE 853/2004, Reg. CE 854/2004,
Reg. CE 396/2005 e altri……)
• Control systems harmonized at national level
Reg. CE 882/2004
• A dialogue with consumers and other stakeholders, including farmers
“Green Paper” on agricultural product quality: product standards, farming requirements and quality systems (EU, 2008)
This new approach / logic has also put farmers in a position of direct responsibility towards the consumer
Hence the slogan "from farm to fork", in which food safety becomes a shared responsibility in the entire production chain
Consumers today, in addition to food safety, pay increasing attention to agriculture’s contribution to:
QUALITY
QUALITY = satisfy consumers’ expectations
This innovative climate, which has affected the agricultural sector and that has been consolidated over the past decade, has put farms in a state of extreme uncertainty for several reasons:
absence of parallel support policies in order to facilitate the reorganization of a company in line with the new demands of the market;
the development of a ‘voluntary’ standard production in response to the increased requirements of retail (supermarket chains)
major consumer awareness to seek and obtain safety and food quality;
To give concrete answers to this new innovative system, the agricultural sector requires:
HIGHLY PROFESSIONAL TECHNICAL
CONSULTANCY
with
SPECIFIC COMPETENCE
LOVE OF
THE LAND
MORAL INTEGRITY
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
The Agronomy and Forestry Doctors for their interdisciplinary training in line with the demands emerging, can play an important role in:
qualification / modernization of rural areas;
improving the quality of life, ensuring a higher production of healthy food and of good quality;
choice / use of modern, rational and "clean“ means and technologies, in line with sustainable development
Therefore putting our profession in the center of this new agricultural system, means:
GUARANTEEING BOTH FARMS AND THE CONSUMER
FINALLY ENDING A PROFESSIONAL, GENERALIZED AND ERRATIC BEHAVIOR
JOIN A SPECIFIC AND RATIONAL INTERVENTION IN LINE WITH MARKET DEMANDS
So, to the question “Could we satisfy the increased nutritional requirements while maintaining food quality and
safety”?