ºÑ¹·Ö¡ÂèÍ
à¤éÒÃèÒ§
"European Union’s"
European Union’s
White Paper on Food Safety
HISTORY
The occurrences of the Mad Cow disease and Dioxin problem, which originally started in Belgium and pread throughout the United Kingdom, have spawned a global confidence crisis in the European food processing standards and food sanitation.
Each member of the European Union (EU) places different degrees of strictness on food processing and sanitation standards.  This separation leads to a lack of co-operation in reinforcing the regulation on food processing and sanitation standard.
SCOPE
White Paper on Food Safety will cover the food production process from the manufacturers to finished products (Farm to Table).
OBJECTIVES
To regain and recreate consumer’s confidence.
To establish the highest standard in health and food sanitation protection.
To reduce or eliminate any possible risks in food consumption.
THREE MAJOR PROCEDURAL EMPHASES
Risk assessment
Risk management
Risk communications
"Traceability of animal feeds,"
Traceability of animal feeds, food
products, and food compositions.
"European Union indicates the comprehensive..."
European Union indicates the comprehensive safeguard clause, after discovering that food products and animal feeds are unsanitary.
"The EU is pushing forward..."
The EU is pushing forward a temporary application of precautionary priciples on imported food products at the WTO negotiating table.
In addition, the EU also requires that each WTO member set up regulations in the following areas:
Environmental Consideration
Animal Welfare
Sustainable Agriculture
Consumers’ Expectation
Recommendations on how FTI should handle EU’s proposed regulations on food safety:
Maintain continual records of product information.  This record maintenance components could also be inspected accurately, precisely, and in a timely fashion.
Constantly maintain the production level according to international standards, such as HACCP, ISO 9000, and ISO 14000 (have completed …%)
Recommendations on how FTI should handle EU’s proposed regulations on food safety:
The FTI must seriously develop a consistent risk management program.
The FTI must cooperate with both the government and the public domains in building competitive advantage for industries.
Recommendations on how the Thai government should handle EU’s proposed regulations on food safety:
Form a task force, composing of both private and government sectors, to oversee and follow up on the enforcement of the EU’s regulations.
Encourage the government sector to create a competitive advantage.
Recommendations on how the Thai government should handle EU’s proposed regulations on food safety:
3) The government must create new regulations regarding imports of goods into Thailand, in order to generate a fair trade reciprocal to Thailand’s exports that are subject to foreign countries’ tight import regulations.
4) Thailand must co-operate closely with other agricultural-based exporting countries, such as the Cairns Group and ASEAN, in order to negotiate with the EU.
Current standing of Thailand’s private sector toward the EU’s white paper on food safety:
The proposal must not interfere with current trade agreements under the WTO.  And any new proposals must not create trade barriers to member countries.
The proposal must meet an international standard and be accepted by every member country.
The proposal must not be selective only to certain countries.
Current standing of Thailand’s private sector toward the EU’s white paper on food safety:
4) The EU must carefully study the pros and cons of food labeling for both Novel Food and Novel Feed.  This study also applies to the precautionary principle.  The result of these must be clearly accomplished before the issues could be brought to the WTO’s negotiating table.
5) The EU must allow time for developing countries’ food industry to adjust to the new regulations according to each food category.