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FAO Press releases WHO Press releases FAO Fact Sheets on Food Safety Issues WHO Fact Sheets on Food Safety Issues

FAO Press releases

 

FAO Press Release 01/44 (Joint FAO/WHO). Codex Alimentarius Commission discusses safety of genetically modified foods , approves toxin limits and guidelines for organic livestock farming FAO Press Release 01/43. Codex Alimentarius Commission (2-7 July 2001). FAO/WHO call for more international collaboration to solve food safety and quality problems FAO Press Release 01/35. FAO announces new initiatives to improve food safety and quality FAO Press Release 01/20 (Joint FAO/WHO). Codex Alimentarius Commission Task Force announces significant progress toward agreement on worldwide standards for biotech foods FAO Press Release 01/03. FAO: Countries around the world should be concerned about "Mad Cow Disease" and should take action to reduce and prevent risks FAO Press Release 00/17. FAO stresses potential of biotechnology but calls for caution FAO Press Release 99/59. Conference convenes to assess future of food trade agreements FAO Press Release 99/36. FAO urges better control of animal feed contamination problems FAO Press Release 97/24. Code of Practice for good animal feeding proposed to counter health threat to humans from contaminated meat, FAO reports.

WHO Press releases

 

WHO Responds to New Challenges in Food Safety Press Release WHO/4, 25 January 2000 Food Safety Resolution from the 53rd World Health Assembly Codex Alimentarius Commission discusses safety of discusses safety of genetically modified foods, approves toxin limits and guidelines for organic livestock farming Press Release WHO/33, 6 July 2001 FAO/WHO Call for More International Collaboration to Solve Food Safety and Quality Problems Press Release WHO/30, 2 July 2001 Joint WHO/OIE/FAO Consultation on BSE/CJD closes Press Release WHO/28, 14 June 2001 WHO issues new recommendations to protect human health from antimicrobial use in food animals Press Release WHO/43, 13 June 2000

FAO Fact Sheets on Food Safety Issues

 

Food quality and safety

WHO Fact Sheets on Food Safety

 

Use of antimicrobials outside human medicine and resultant antimicrobial resistance in humans (Fact Sheet N-268), January 2002 Emerging Foodborne Diseases (Fact Sheet N-124), January 2002 Food Safety and Foodborne Illness (Fact Sheet N-237), January 2002 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) (Fact Sheet N-113), June 2001 Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) (Fact Sheet N-180), June 2001 Campylobacter (Fact Sheet N-255), November 2000 Cholera (Fact Sheet N-107), March 2000