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Eurostat / Food safety statistics

Food and Agricultural Statistics in Europe - Roma, 29 June-1 July 2005

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Towards food safety statistics at EU level

Ana Martinez Palou - Eurostat

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Index

I. Introduction: objective, scope

II. Approach

III. Priority areas

Products with distinctive marks

Controls and monitoring activities

Food consumption statistics

IV. FOOD database

V. Current and mid-term developments

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I. Food safety statistics

Quantitative evaluation of data on the safety

of products

Food + feed

Production intra-EU + imports

across time and space

access to population: physical and

financial

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I. Scope: From farm to fork

Animals

Packaging

Crops Fishing

Manufacture of food products and beverages

Water

Transport Distributive trade

Feed Pesticides, fertilisers, seeds

Traceabilityand labels

Consumer

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II. Agreed orientations

Building from existing information

Priority areas identified:

Statistics on Products “with distinctive marks”

Controls and monitoring activities

Food consumption

Traceability and labelling

Creation of a database with all relevant data

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II. Approach building from existing

information

Make an inventory of data already available

Analysis of available data before launching

new surveys

Do not ask Member States to provide twice

the same information

Avoid double work

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Products issued from organic farming

GMO

Products with “quality” labels:

Protected Designation of Origin (PDO)

Protected Geographical Indication (PGI)

Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG)

III. Products “with distinctive marks”

What are they?

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III. Control and monitoring activities

Task Force set up in 2004 Objective: Analyse if data already available from

feed and food control and monitoring activities could be used for statistical purposes

Data available at DG SANCO and/or European Food Safety Authority (EFSA):

Administrative sources

Results based on chemical and microbiological analysis

Sampling methodology defined in EU legislation

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III. Control and monitoring activities Proposed indicators

Monitoring intensity Number of samples analysed, by food product Number of establishments visited Number of inspection visits

On which domains countries concentrate their efforts?

On which steps of the food chain: slaughterhouses, retailers, etc. ?

On which food products?

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III. Monitoring intensity – Illustrative tables

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CZ

BE

Retail traders

Manuf. of feedingstuffs

Manuf. of foodstuffs

Slaughter- houses

Farms

Number of inspections carried on, per 100 establishments

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III. Monitoring intensity – Illustrative tables

Samples analysed, by domain (number and % of all samples)

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DK

CK

BE

EU

BSEZoonosesResidues of hormones + vet. drugs

Pesticide

residues

All controls

Hygiene

riskBiological

riskChemical

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Results of controls Number of complying samples, by food

product and hazard Number of non-complying samples, by food

product and hazard Number of establishments with infringements

Conformity with Food safety legislation

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Actions, consequence of controls Withdrawals (in volume) from the supply

chain, by food product and by reason

Number of penalties, by monitored hazard

Complementary to information on controls: which measures are taken if positive results of controls?

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Costs Number of persons involved in official control

and monitoring activities

Public expenditure in control and monitoring activities

Cost/effectiveness analysis

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activitiesComments on proposed indicators

Costs

Actions

( ) Results of controls

Monitoring intensity

Monitoring of

zoonoses

Monitoring of residues in animals and

animal products

Monitoring of

pesticide residues

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activities

Very complex area: many organisations involved with different responsibilities

Knowledge: scattered

Results obtained from representative sampling should not be combined with those from “targeted sampling”

Data on monitoring intensity should be put in relation with reference figures: livestock numbers, production, etc.

Task Force - Lessons - I

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activities

“Complying samples” / “Non-complying samples”: definitions not always comparable across countries

Efforts of harmonisation already made: pesticide residues (DG SANCO)

Efforts of harmonisation under way: residues in animals and products of animal origin (DG SANCO), zoonoses (EFSA)

Task Force - Lessons - II

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III. Control and monitoring activities

Conclusions of 2004 Task Force Need for a common terminology

Glossary

Classification of food and feed control activities

Focus on data already provided based on EU legislation

Attention when publishing the data! Danger of misinterpretation!

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IV. FOOD Data base - Approach

Single and unique access to data already available in

Eurostat and other DGs of the European Commission

Give visibility

Facilitate the access:

Statistics available in more than 75 tables, from 18

different statistical domains, from 9 production units

Food and feed controls scattered from different

Commission reports

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Food: From farm to fork

IV. FOOD database - Detailed structure

From consumption to health

From productionto consumption

Controls and monitoring

Inputs in the food chain

Food consumption

Consumers’ health

Products with distinctive marks

Manufacture and sales of food

Price levels, price trends

Primary production and inputs

Extra-EU imports: main partners

Actors involved

Ancillary activities: R&D, transport

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Extra-EU imports: main EU partners in 2003

prod_nc0304 Fish fillets and other fish

meat (wether or not minced), fresh, chilled or frozen

0302 Fish, fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat

variable partner EU trade partners

imp_ext_eu15 Extra-EU15

imports (tones)

partnerEU trade partners

imp_ext_eu15 Extra-EU15

imports (tones)rankpartall All EU partners Extra_EU15 878559,7 Extra_EU15 625445,4n1 Partner N.1 China 135166,8 Norway 382991,9n2 Partner N.2 Norway 106043,3 Faroe_Isles 78317,2n3 Partner N.3 USA 88132,2 Iceland 37187,6n4 Partner N.4 Iceland 88079,1 Morocco 24664,2n5 Partner N.5 Russia 73879,6 South_Africa 19010,9n6 Partner N.6 Namibia 62273,5 Chile 11807,3n7 Partner N.7 Argentina 45780,2 Turkey 10031,1n8 Partner N.8 Chile 41699,4 Canada 7820,9n9 Partner N.9 Faroe_Isles 32128,8 Mauritania 5934,8n10 Partner N.10 Tanzania 29226,2 Senegal 5530,4

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IV. Database - Publicly available

www.europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/ Select: Data / Agriculture and fisheries / FOOD

Separate entry for “organic farming”

data

FOOD

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V. Current and mid-term developments

Work programme 2005 Reflection group: what is “food safety”? Task forces on identified priority areas:

Control and monitoring activities Food consumption

Prototype of internal database with data on control and monitoring activities

Products with distinctive marks: Consolidate data on organic production and

farming Data collection on PDO/GPI

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V. Control and monitoring activities Working programme 2005

Common terminology Glossary

Classification of control activities

Incorporate data on control and monitoring activities in an internal database Monitoring intensity: areas where EU reporting

obligation already exist Results of controls: Some selected areas

(pesticide residues, TSE, official food and feed controls)

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hazard

Food safety controls

Food chain controls

Chemical risk

Other food chain controls

Biological risk

Physical risk

Environmental

Prohibited subs.

Other animal diseases

Plant health

Consumer’s info.

Product certification

Zoonoses

Anim. dis.

BSE

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V. Food consumption statistics

Task Force 2005 To develop a mixed data collection strategy :

Supply Balance Sheets: to keep annual data

availability

Household Surveys: to collect data on food

purchases in a systematic and harmonised way.

Dietary surveys. There are several initiatives to

harmonise the data collection techniques and

food items classifications. It is crucial to follow

with work already done.

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V. Reflection groupshort-term, mid-term

developments Meeting 16-17 June 2005 Identified “gaps”:

Impact of food safety in humans: human health Consumers’ awareness

Priority areas confirmed: Indicators of control intensity Indicators of results of controls Focus on biological hazards Exposure assessment Food production and distribution process

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