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Control oficial en establecimientos
autorizados: la estructura de la FSA y
visión veterinaria
John Lawrence
Jefe Veterinario de Operaciones de la FSA
FSA STRUCTURE AND
VETERINARY VISION (La estructura de la FSA y visión veterinaria)
Talk Outline
• Briefly Introduce my role, the Agency
• The Food Standards Agency Vision
• Our controls and how they work
• The Veterinary Vision
A Bit about me
• Born and bred Kiwi, Vet school
• Farm Practice in NZ and UK
• Five years in SVS then own business
• Nearly five years in AHVLA
• FSA in May 2014
What does an
OHV do?
(¿A qué se
dedica un
OHV?)
• To provide leadership and direction to the
Veterinary Assurance Team
• As deputy Head of Veterinary Profession for
the FSA, lead veterinary officials on career
and development across Government
• To ensure effective governance and controls
• Veterinary Input into developing strategy
• Carry the can for most things!
In this presentation
Food Standards Agency - ¿Quiénes somos?
• Historia – establecida en abril del 2000 como un departamento
del gobierno dirigida por un órgano independiente en aras del
interés público
• Objetivo - la protección de los consumidores a través de la
mejora de la seguridad alimentaria aportando información clara
y honesta
• Responsabilidades – la seguridad alimentaria, la dieta y la
nutrición; la evaluación del riesgo, la gestión y la comunicación
• Valores – prioridad de los consumidores/apertura y
transparencia/basada en evidencias y la experiencia científica
• Datos – presupuesto: £150m/Personal:1665 (1068 en
mataderos)
FSA UK –Offices-
o London: Policy o York: Operations o Aberdeen o Cardiff o Belfast
Food Standards Scotland
FSA STRATEGY 2015-2020
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Our pledge is to put the consumer first in everything we do (Nuestro compromiso es dar la prioridad a
los consumidores en todo lo que hacemos)
(FSA Statement of General Objectives and Practices October 2000)
Risks to supply
Climate change – loss of production
Global demand changes – Europe
has access to a smaller share of available food
Risks to consumers
Ageing population
Increasingly diversified diets,
including increased food poverty
Consumers less confident about their
food
Political and economic pressures
A smaller state: deregulation and
cuts
International trade - increasing
importance of extra-EC trade
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Key Environment Drivers
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Climate change will put pressure on agricultural productivity
• By changing overall growing conditions (rainfall distribution, temperature and carbon)
• By introducing more extreme weather such as floods, drought and storms
• By increasing extent, type and frequency of infestations, including invasive alien species
Changing climate and the vector for
Bluetongue
(Cambio climático y su relación con el vector de
la Lengua Azul)
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Increasing global population also puts pressure on both food production and land
• To meet the expected demand for food without significant increases in prices, it has been estimated that we need to produce 70–100 % more food1
[1] Pretty et al, 2010, ‘The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY
Increasing life expectancies and low rate of fertility in the UK are contributing to an ageing population
(ONS Population Projections 2013) 16
Ageing population contributes to public health risks. Over 65’s are at increased risk due to …
• Lower immunity caused by pre-existing health conditions
• Factors like mobility and ageing kitchen appliances working against them as more prevalent than in other household types
• Those aged 75 and over were found to be less likely to report food safety behaviors in line with some FSA recommendations
Who are we? A small piece of a big
picture Expenditure makes up 0.08% of Food Sector Turnover
Staff make up 0.12% of people working in the Food Sector
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Food Sector Food Product Manufacturing, Food and Drink Wholesale; Food and Beverage Service; Food/Beverages Retail Sales. Does not include Agriculture
Another way of looking at it: Leverage (Capacidad para influenciar)
FS
A
Industry, OGDs,
LAs, Citizens
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What strategy and activity enables us to maximise leverage?
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Mechanisms for communicating changing and providing tools for the activist voice
31,456,000
15,000,000+
10,000,000
200,000 (2011)
2,000,000 (2013)
Social Media Users in the UK
- 2013
UK
Global
Official food and feed controls in the UK
(Controles oficiales de piensos y alimentos en Reino Unido)
FSA Operations Group: Official Controls
The FSA operations Group has the responsibility for the implementation and effective delivery of official controls across the UK in all FSA’s food and feed responsibilities
The FSA protects consumers by ensuring that business produce safe food and comply with feed and food law
FSA Operations Group: Delivery of Official Controls though….
All foods including meat, shellfish, eggs, dairy, wine, animal feed and the whole food chain –primary production to
consumption-
Own staff
Other government departments and
private organisations
Local Authorities
FSA Operations Group: Food and Feed Premises subject to Official Controls….
UK
434 Local
Authorities.
Responsible for
food safety
compliance
560000 food
establishments
>405600 restaurants &
caterers
>130500 retailers
>16500 manufacturers and
packers
>8800 distributors
and transporters
>960 importers
and exporters
(Autorización de establecimientos alimentarios)
Approved Meat Establishments in UK
With support from our Service Delivery Partners, the
FSA delivers official controls in more than a 1,000 approved meat establishments in Britain, :
347 slaughterhouses
in Britain
Approx 265 are Red meat
Approx 75 White meat
58 game handling establishments in
Britain
901 cutting plants in Britain
Approx 550 are Red meat
Approx 350 are White meat
FSA Operations Group: Field Operation Structure
FSA Approvals of meat establishments In accordance with EU Regulations Food Establishments have to comply with the requirements set in below regulations to be approved • Regulation (EC) 852/2004 on hygiene of foodstuff
• Regulation (EC) 853/2004 on specific hygiene rules for food of animal
origin. Eg: Milk, eggs
• Others Regulations: e.g. welfare, microbiology
In accordance with EU Regulations the Competent Authority have to ensure the requirements set in above legislation are complied with.
FSA Approvals of meat establishments
• Approvals of meat establishments are made by
FSA Field Veterinary
• FVMs will regard :
• Hygiene Standards and Structural Standards
• HACCP Systems and Traceability Systems
• Animal Welfare Standards
• Waste & Specified Risk Material Controls
FSA Approval of Establishments
Delivery of the official controls at approved establishments (Aplicación de controles oficiales en
los establecimientos autorizados)
• The FSA is the UK competent authority to deliver the Official Controls in approved meat establishments
• The Official Veterinarian (OV) is the FSA team leader .There are approximately 283 OVs
• The FSA verifies FBO compliance of the applicable Regulations in meat establishments
• The OV carries out enforcement action if non compliances are raised
FSA Role in Official Controls
FSA Role in Official Control: OV
FSA role in Official Controls Microbiological testing:
• FBO test carcasses in accordance with the provisions set out in
Regulation (EC) 2073/2005
• Testing is to verify process hygiene
• The sample will be collected before chilling
• Salmonella, ACC and Enterobacteriaceaea are to be tested
• The FBO will carry out corrective actions if process hygiene criteria is not met. OV enforces if this does not happen
FSA role in Official Controls
• Notifiable Diseases (ND): reporting of any
suspect of ND to the Animal Health Authority
(APHA)
• Enforcement: action when non-compliance
are identified
FSA role in Official Controls: Other OV duties
The OV check regularly
carcases in the chiller for:
• Absence of contamination
• correct dressing and post
mortem of carcasses
• health marking.
FSA role in Official Controls: Other OV duties
The Veterinary Auditors (19 ) Audit the FBO Food Safety
Management System
Animal Health risks of public health significance
Animal Welfare
Hygienic Production
HACCP
Animal By-Products / TSE/ SRM
The aim of the audit is to verify that the FBO applies procedures continuously and properly
FSA Role in Official Controls: AUDIT
FSA Operations
Group: Veterinary Assurance Structure
- Cattle / Bovine species - Pigs - Sheep and Goats - Poultry - Horses - Wild and Farmed Game - Farmed Land Mammals other than Domestic Ungulates and Other Atypical species - Dairy Holdings - Animal Welfare - Animal By-Products - Notifiable Disease Surveillance and Contingency - Other Products of Animal Origin and Meat processing - Standards and Traceability - Professional (Veterinary and Technical) development and Training - Approval of Meat Establishments
Collaborative approach
15 Portfolios:
Plus Points of Contact
AVL or FVL to lead portfolio
Technical portfolios
WHY VETS ?
• What “added value” does the Veterinary
Profession provide to Food Safety?
• Why are Vets not taking more of a
leadership role in Government?
The call for Science to step up is not new
President Barack Obama walks along
the Colonnade with John Holdren, the
White House science adviser, Government science advice: where
are the honest brokers?
Scientific and political leaders need to
focus more attention on the integrity
of advisory processes, rather than
taking sides in the political battles of
the day
The Guardian
Did wrong advice lead to this?
• Probably the most derided politician to emerge out of
the BSE scandal, John Gummer will always be
remembered for making great public show of feeding
his four-year-old daughter Cordelia a hamburger in
the midst of the "mad cow" disease scare.
• Eight years passed - and 32 people had died of CJD,
the human form of BSE - before Mr Gummer was
obliged to justify his action to the public inquiry
• He told the panel he had no regrets about his
strenuous efforts to appease public fears with
blanket statements that beef was "perfectly safe".
‘Perfectly Safe’
• Identify issues and risks based
on objective data and evidence
without any external bias
• Discuss and get consensus
• What are the connections…
Determine your message
Getting the Advice right
Basic Project
Formal Project /
Portfolio
BAU Activity /
Continues
Improvement
Action:
The science can be complicated…
Getting risks in context
Confidence is vital in trade
Zoonotic Disease Control (e.g. Rabies)
People do not always react rationally
On-farm Surveillance (e.g. TB / BSE)
We routinely look for diseases we suspect
The “known knowns”
The “unknown known” – you could be famous as the Vet who
first spotted that Foot and Mouth ....
....or missed it !!!!
The “Unknown Unknowns”
Watching out for the next
Exotic or Novel Disease
Vets can join the dots!
Eradication of Rinderpest (Peste bovina)
A triumph of collaboration
So in the routine work …
Expect the unexpected!
Ensuring safe food supplies
In a risky world
Promoting healthy Livestock Production
Like most things in life ....
In the end it comes down to communication...
THANK YOU! Have a great Conference!
