Implications of EU restructuring and free trade on feed quality and safety, disease and food quality and safety + Quality assurance systems to ensure compliance

Date: 05 June ‘05; 9:30 - 13:00 hours
Chairperson: Noordhuizen (NL)

Theatre

• The EU policy on food and feed safety: an overview (Vanthemsche, P.)

• The Codex Alimentarius and consumer protection related to foods of animal origin (Slorach, S.A.)

• Feed and feed safety in livestock production (Heeschen, W. and A. Blüthgen)

• Suisse Garantie - more than a label (Löffel, B., P. Gresch, C. Beglinger and R. Kennel-Hess)

• Quality assurance programs for the USA pig industry: focus on food safety and animal welfare (McGlone, J.)

• Animal Health, welfare and public health issues (Pastoret, P.P.)

• Balancing public and private interests in EU food production (Stott, A.W., C. Milne, S. Peddie, F. Williams and G.J. Gunn)

• Control of salmonella in food of animal origin: the role of animal feed (Häggblom, P.E.)

• Utilising sustainable data in an effective way (Kuipers, A. and F.J.H.M. Verhees)

Poster

• Development of quality indicators for e-Learning in the domain of farm animal welfare (Sossidou, E., D. Stamatis and E. Szücs)

• Comparison of conventional and electronic identification in beef cows under rangeland and long term
  conditions (Ghirardi, J.J., G. Caja, C. Conill and M. Hernández-Jover)

• Improving skills on food quality and safety issues in the Leonardo da Vinci Vocational Training Project WELFOOD in virtual environment (Szücs, E., R. Geers, J. Praks, V. Poikalainen, E. Sossidou and T. Jezierski)

• Subcutaneous nasal transponder implant, an alternative method for electronic identification of pigs - preliminary results (Lungu, S., G. Fiore and C. Korn)

• Tracing pigs by using conventional and electronic identification devices (Babot, D., M. Hernández-Jover, G. Caja, C. Santamarina and J.J. Ghirardi)

• Electronic identification of swine: comparison of results obtained using intra-peritoneal transponders and
  ear tags (Marchi, E., N. Ferri and F. Comellini)

• Effect of the transportation on the readability and retention of the endo- reticulum transponder in goats Sarda breed (Pinna, W., P. Sedda, G. Delogu, G. Moniello, M.P.L. Bitti and I.L. Solinas)

• Effect of intraperitoneal transponder on the productive performances of suckling piglets (Pinna, W., P. Sedda, G. Delogu, G. Moniello, M.G. Cappai and I.L. Solinas)