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“Achieving consensus on the science of food regulations and legislation to ensure the global availability of safe and wholesome food products for all consumers.” |
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What is the Global Harmonization Initiative?In an attempt to eliminate hurdles, a network of scientific organizations has launched a global initiative to facilitate harmonization of food safety regulations and legislation. The objective is to discuss, globally, the scientific issues that buttress the decisions made by individual governments and international regulatory bodies in order to achieve global scientific consensus on such issues. The Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI) Working Group anticipates that elimination of the regulatory differences will make it more attractive for the private sector to invest in food safety R&D, consequently strengthening the competitiveness of each nation's food industry and of the industries supplying the food sector. Harmonizing global regulations will facilitate the application of new technologies, encouraging the food industry to invest in such technologies to ensure better safety and quality for consumers. >>More
The Publication plan 2008 can be downloaded here !
June 28-July 1, 2008 : IFT Annual Meeting in New Orleans, USA, 28 June - 1 July 2008 - Open meeting. Preliminary agenda, see here
October 19-23, 2008 Shanghai, China : 14th World Congress of Food Science and Technology - Working Group meetings
November 4-9, 2008 : First European Food Congress, Ljubljana, Slovenia, - Symposium, Working Group meetings and a “hands-on”short course on In vitro toxicity tests with human liver Hep G2 cells.
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