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What are the 3 types of European legislation? |
Regulation, directive, decision |
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What is the form of Irish legislation? |
Acts |
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What are acts also known as? |
Statutory Instrument |
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What are the 2 types of statutory instruments? |
Regulation and order |
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When was the white paper on food safety published? |
Jan 2000 |
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Who published the white paper on food safety? |
EC |
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What was the white paper on food safety a response to? |
Food safety crises: BSE crises, Belgian dioxin crisis |
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What were the objectives of the white paper on food safety? |
Outline comprehensive range of actions needed to complement and modernise existing EU legislation, Make more coherent, understandable and flexible, Promote better enforcement, Provide greater transparency to consumers, Guarantee high level of food safety |
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What does Regulation No 178 of 2002 include? |
Central piece of food and feed law, definitions relevant to legislation, general obligations for food and feed businesses and competent authorities |
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What is Regulation No 178 of 2002 called? |
General principles of food law |
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Who created regulation 178 of 2002? |
EFSA |
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When was the most recent amendment of 178 of 2002? |
2011 |
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What 2 SIs was regulation 178/2002 translated into? |
No. 432/2009 and 747/2007 |
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What does SI 432/2009 apply to? |
Dpt. Ag, Fisheries and Food, Local Authorities, Sea Fisheries Protection Authority |
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What does SI 747/2007 apply to? |
Environmental health officers of the Health Service Executive (HSE) |
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Where does Regulation 178/2002 apply? |
ALL stages of production, processing and distribution of food |
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Who does regulation 178/2002 apply to? |
Food Business: any undertaking, for profit or not, public or private, carrying out any activities related to any stage of production, processing or distribution of food |
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What is exempt from regulation 178/2002? |
Primary production for private domestic use or to domestic preparation, handling or storage of food for private domestic consumption |
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What do articles 2 and 3 of 178/2002 contain? |
Definitions |
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What is the definition of food? |
Any substance or product, processed/partially processed/unprocessed, intended or expected to be ingested by humans |
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What does the term food include? |
drink, chewing gum, water, any substance intentionally incorporated into food during manufacture, preparation or treatment |
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What does the term food not include? |
Feed, live animals, plants prior to harvesting, medicinal products, cosmetics, tobacco |
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What is food law? |
Laws regulations and administrative provisions governing food in general, and food safety in particular, at community or national level, covers all stages of production, processing and distribution of food, feed produced for or fed to food producing animals |
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What is food business? |
Any undertaking for profit or not, public or private, carrying out any activities related to any stage of production, processing and distribution of food |
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What is a food business operator? |
Natural or legal persons responsible for ensuring that requirements of food law are met within food business under their control |
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What does article 6 in 178/2002 contain? |
Risk Analysis |
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What is food law based on? |
Risk analysis |
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What are the 3 steps of risk analysis? |
risk assessment, risk management and risk communication |
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What is risk assessment based on? |
science based |
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What is risk management based on? |
policy based |
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What is risk communication? |
Interactive exchange of info and opinions concerning risks |
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What are the 4 steps of risk assessment? |
hazard identification, hazard characterization, exposure assessment and risk characterization |
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What is risk management? |
Process of weighing policy alternatives in consultation with interested parties, considering risk assessment and other legitimate factors and if needed, selecting appropriate prevention and control options |
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What info is communicated in risk communication? |
hazards and risk, risk-related factors and risk perceptions, risk assessment findings and basis of risk management decisions |
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Who is involved in risk communication? |
risk assessors, risk managers, consumers, feed and food businesses, academic community |
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What are the EFSA's 2 core activities? |
risk assessment and risk communication |
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What 5 authorities are involved in risk management? |
member states, all food businesses, European parliament, council of ministers and European Commission |
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What does article 7 of 173/2002 contain? |
Precautionary principle |
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What is the precautionary principle? |
provisional risk management measures to ensure level of health protection adopted when waiting for further scientific info |
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What is contained in article 8 of 173/2002? |
Protection of Consumers' Interest |
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What should food law aim at? |
protection of interests of consumers and provide basis for consumers to make informed choices in relation to foods |
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What should food law aim to prevent? |
Fraudulent or deceptive practices, adulteration of food and any other practices that may mislead |
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What is included in article 11 and 12? |
Imports and Exports |
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What must imported food and feed comply with? |
Relevant requirements of food law or equivalent, requirements of specific agreements between countries |
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What must exported food and feed comply with? |
relevant requirements of EU food law |
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When does exported food and feed not have to comply with EU food law? |
when requested by authorities of importing country, established by laws of importing country |
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What does article 14 contain? |
food safety requirements |
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When is food not placed on the market? |
When it is unsafe |
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What does 'placing on the market' mean? |
Holding of food for purpose of sale, including offering for sale or any other form of transfer, free of charge or not and the sale, distribution and other forms of transfer |
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What is considered when determining if food is unsafe? |
Normal conditions of use, stage of production, processing and distribution, info provided to consumer concerning avoidance of specific health effects from a particular food or category of foods |
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What is unsafe food? |
injurious to health or unfit for human consumption |
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What is considered to determine if food is injurious to health? |
probable immediate, short term and long term effects that focus on the health of the person consuming it and subsequent generations, probable cumulative toxic effects, particular health sensitivities of specific category of consumers |
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What 4 things make food unfit for human consumption? |
contamination, putrefaction, deterioration and decay |
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What does article 18 contain? |
traceability |
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What details are needed for traceability? |
Name and address of suppliers/customers, details of products supplied to/by them, date of transactions or delivery |
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What does article 19 contain? |
Withdrawals and recalls |
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What is the difference between withdraws and recalls? |
Recalls when product has reached final consumer, Withdraws when product has not reached final consumer |
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What is the alert system for unsafe food in Europe? |
The European Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) |