Vijest
Goals, purpose and first results of Croatian rapid alert system
Marijan Katalenić
; Hrvatski zavod za javno zdravstvo, Rockefellerova 7, Zagreb
Sažetak
Croatian Food Act, published on July 18 2003, follows the basic principles of the EU’s Food Act. The EU’s Act has created the preconditions for a new uniform approach to the safety of food and feed for animals, as well as for the application of the early alert system.
Under Article 92 of our Food Act, establishing an early alert system for foods and feed for animals is an assignment for Food Agency. Since, however, it is in the process of formation, it is necessary to make the necessary preparations with which to facilitate its operation. Particularly importantly, the system should take shape even before the Agency becomes fully operational, the more so as anyone concerned with food and feed in Croatia is generally known. The base of everything is rapid and effective action in the case of warranted suspicion that a marketed food or feed for animals may pose a threat to human health, and tracing it to the food chain.
In the first action steps of the Rapid Alert System for Foods and Feed for Animals, the operation of such system and the setting up of its Network has been accepted with pleasure.
Serious and effective action requires a full and unreserved collaboration of all institutions and participants in the Network. This is certain to result in good protection of human health, clear insight into the offer to consumers, as well as into the withdrawal of unsafe food from the market.
Ključne riječi
Croatian rapid alert system; food and feed; health safety; risk
Hrčak ID:
25911
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.6.2004.
Posjeta: 1.165 *