SAFE Announcements and Events:
- SAFE at the World Seafood Congress 2017
Mark your agenda now.The World Seafood Congress 2017 will take place from 10 to 13 September in Reykjavik Iceland.
On the afternoon of TUESDAY 12 SEPT, SAFE consortium will lead two sessions.
Abstracts still being accepted for speakers and for posters.
Early bird registration open till 30 April.
- SAFE Executive Board Meetings 2017-26 JUNE
The upcoming 2017 meetings of the SAFE consortium Executive Board will be by teleconference on
Monday 26 June at 14H CET
Thursday 27 July at 14H CET
Wednesday 23 August at 13H 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.
The SAFE Consortium
Introduction
The SAFE consortium is a platform of research bodies:
Institutes, Universities, National and International Societies and Research Groups and Departments within these institutions.
Activities
In accordance with its remit, the activities developed by the SAFE consortium will be confined to food safety sciences, interpreted in its broadest sense to include agricultural inputs and the complete chains of food and feed production, processing, packaging, transportation, distribution, retail, consumption and consumer research.
Objectives
The SAFE consortium is the international association of scientific institutes and universities who work together in the area of food safety related sciences. We want to stimulate the public debate on food safety and we can do that unhampered by links to government and industry because all members have the full right to publish in the public interest.
Office
The SAFE consortium maintains an office in Brussels, but most of the activities of the consortium are carried out and co-ordinated by the office staff, the SAFE Executive Board and the SAFE members from their home locations.
SAFE Office Staff:
- Dr. Hrönn Ólína Jörundsdóttir, Secretary General
- Dr. Katherine Flynn, Scientific Secretary
Executive Board
Current members of the SAFE consortium Executive Board, 2016-2017 (in alphabetical order by Institute).
- Begoña Pérez-Villarreal, Business Director Food Research Division, AZTI-Tecnalia, Derio (Bizkaia), Spain. President of the Executive Board. Elected President in 2012.
- Tim Hogg, Professor of Microbiology, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Universidade Catolica Portuguese, Porto, Portugal. Vice-President of the Executive Board. Joined the EB in 2010, elected Vice-President in 2012.
- Oddur Már Gunnarsson, Director Business Development, Matís, Reykjavík, Iceland. Joined the EB in 2016.
- Nastasia Belc, Director General, Institutul National Bioresurse Alimentare IBA, Bucharest, Romania. Represented by Irina Smeu. Joined the EB in 2013.
- Helga Næs, Research Director, Nofima, Ås, Norway. Joined the EB in 2012.
- Ryszard Amarowicz, Head of Department of Chemical and Physical Properties of Food, Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Science. Joined the EB in 2014.
Read more to see members of previous SAFE consortium Executive Boards...
Organization
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the members is the governing body of the consortium. The AGM decides on the general policy of the consortium and oversees the management of the consortium by the Executive Board.The AGM is organised before or on April 30th each year.
Mission
The mission of the SAFE consortium is to stimulate the public debate in Europe on the scientific aspects of food safety, by making available up-to-date knowledge from institutes whose scientific integrity is guaranteed by the unlimited right to publish in the public interest.
Interesting Notes
Do you work for a SAFE consortium member institute?
Register as an Individual Member of the SAFE consortium and access Member's Only pages including downloads of documents and presentations, plus receive SAFE announcements directly by email !
Registration is simple. Send an email to the SAFE Scientific Secretary, katherine.flynn@safeconsortium.org, from your institution email address and include your three Food Safety interests.
