Managing a safe and secure global food supply chain from farm to fork!

As in previous years, this event will bring together key stakeholders from all along several food chains including manufacturers, suppliers, regulators and the experts that support them. Highlights of the event include case study experiences. Networking opportunities are plentiful as representatives from major food and beverage producers, suppliers and retailers will participate.

Read about last year's summit, including a link to the SAFE consortium presentation given by SAFE Executive Board member Oddur Gunnarsson from Matis Ltd., Iceland here.

SAFE members enjoy a special reduced registration, 20% off with code TSC20 and 30% off for groups of 3+ with code TSSC30.

See the event programme here.

Read more about the event and link to the registration here.

The Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences of the Slovak University of Agriculture at Nitra, a SAFE member since January 2018, announces the 13th International Conference on Biotechnology and Quality of Raw Materials and Foodstuffs. SAFE consortium Scientific Secretary will give a Plenary Lecture, Sparking New Life into Food Safety Research.

The conference will take place from 17-19 September 2018 at the Smolenice Castle in Smolenice, Slovak Republic. Sessions include

• Biotechnology and Molecular Biology
• Food Design and Innovation
• Personalized Nutrition and Health
• Innovation Trends in Food Industry

Abstracts for poster and oral presentations will be accepted until July 31 2018. Following, papers will be published in the Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences. See instructions for authors.

Look forward to meeting you there!

SAFE consortium members will publish a Special Issue of Trends in Food Science &Technology in autumn 2018.

Keeping Food Safety on the Agenda for 15 Years: The SAFE Consortium

There are five food safety themes in the Special Issue, each led by a SAFE member:

1. The Circular Bioeconomy, by Matis Ltd in Iceland
2. Safe Nutrients, by IBA in Romania
3. Emerging Microbial Threats, by CNR-DiSBA in Italy
4. Chemical Hazards, by AZTI in Spain
5. Risk Communication, by Nofima in Norway

The release EVENT will take place in Brussels in autumn 2018. Stay tuned for further information. 

The Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI) is an international non-profit network founded in 2004 to promote harmonization of global food safety regulations and legislation. Read more about GHI here.

GHI will hold its first World Congress to address the problem of differences in regulations between countries and scientifically unjustified food scares which lead to the destruction and/or refusal of safe food. Read more about the Congress here.

The GHI World Congress will be a platform for presenting the most suitable assays for food safety assessments within different fileds - chemistry and microbiology to genetic toxicology and genomics. Congress participants will produce a declaration which calls for and establishes a target to change regulations based on available knowledge.

SAFE consortium is a GHI Supporting Organization.

Early bird registration is open, €595 before 1 Oct. Register here.

The upcoming 2018 meetings of the SAFE consortium Executive Board will be by teleconference in

TUESDAY 19 June at 15H CET

Log in as a SAFE member to download the Agenda and the Minutes of all SAFE EB meetings. Also available are the Agenda and the Minutes of all SAFE Member Meetings, including the Annual General Meetings. Once logged in, these documents become visible as a separate article in Past Events.

If your institution is a SAFE member but you don't have a User Name and Password - send an email to Katherine Flynn with your 3 food safety interests and you will be registered.

If your institution is not a SAFE member - you will find information here on how to apply.