Workshop How to improve the food safety of my products?

Food safety is of fundamental importance to the European consumer, the food industry and the economy to ensure safe food and high quality. The impact on trade and competitiveness is very substantial.

The EU FP6 project PathogenCombat attacks this pan-European problem through a holistic, multidisciplinary approach towards threats from new/ emerging pathogens in the entire food chain. The impact in Europe of PathogenCombat with 44 Partners from 17 countries is bound to be very significant. Pathogen Combat will contribute strongly to improve the effectiveness and uniformity in reducing the prevalence of foodborne pathogens in European food.

Topics involved in the workshop are detection methods for foodborne pathogens, cleaning and disinfection improvement, best level of foods, processing equipment and Food Safety Mangement systems. Furthermore, objectives and novel informations of PathogenCombat as well as the benefits from the new information, methods and tools for the Know How Transfer and also results and activity towards food safety will be presented.

University of Stuttgart 

University of Burgos

Aula Magna Universidad de Burgos

Hospital del Rey s/n 09001 BURGOS

18th June 2009 / 09:00 h - 18:00 h

The workshop will be held in English and Spanish.  Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.

€ 30. It includes coffee breaks, lunch and presentation materials. Bank Details: Fundación General de la Universidad de Burgos Caja de Burgos 2018 000063 112 000 1047 Reason for Payment: Taller Seguridad Alimentaria

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Miriam Manrique Phone: +34 947 25 80 52 / Fax: +34 947 25 80 65 miriamm@ubu.es