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FEATURE: SETTING THE FEFAC AGENDA

to go to implement a risk-based approach on official controls
for feed and food safety. This is why FEFAC supports internationally recognized principles such as ALARA in official
feed and food control systems, allowing global feed and food
trade to continue while providing a high level of feed and food
safety.
WG: Is progress being made toward developing international harmonization of feed safety standards and certifiable
food and feed safety assurance systems?
Corrêa de Barros: FEFAC supports International Feed
Industry Federation (IFIF) activities in its working group on
harmonization of feed safety standards. In a first step, IFIF
will seek to finalize its joint IFIF/FAO feed manual by translating the CODEX code of practice on good animal feeding
in a document carrying additional information that may be
of assistance for feed producers in developing countries who
want to set up their own national feed safety assurance system.
In a second step, IFIF will start to compare existing national
safety assurance systems to identify commonalities and differences in their respective working approaches. While FEFAC
holds no mandate or competence on certification systems, it
will continue to facilitate dialogue between feed producers
and such systems operators to seek the most efficient and costeffective solutions in order to respond to market requirements
on third-party verification of feed safety assurance.
WG: It's our understanding that the need to re-establish a
CODEX Task Force for on Animal Feed will be one of the issues discussed at the CODEX Alimentarius Commission next
July. Do you support the development of such a task force?
Corrêa de Barros: FEFAC fully supports the setting up
of a dedicated CODEX Task Force on animal feed in the absence of a global feed regulatory forum which could deal with
emerging feed safety hazards such as melamine. The current
division of tasks between CODEX on food safety and the
World Organization for Animal Health on animal health and
zoonoses is quite unsatisfactory, as feed producers must seek
to ensure animal health and food safety objectives simultaneously. The new working group should address the existing important methodological gaps on feed safety risk assessments.
This, together with widely varying feed safety objectives between countries, leads to very diverse regulatory frameworks
on feed safety at a time when feed production must rapidly
increase at a global scale in order to meet rising demand for
foodstuffs of animal origin. The notion that there can be no
safe food without safe feed should be translated into a proactive attitude of competent authorities and industry to facilitate
the development of meaningful, robust, feed safety standards
based on scientific risk assessment for the benefit of our farmWG
er customer and the final consumer.
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