Research Catalog

Title

Strengthening national food control systems : guidelines to assess capacity building needs / [written by Marlynne Hopper and Ezzeddine Boutrif].

Author

Hopper, Marlynne.

Publication

Rome : FAO, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Boutrif, Ezzeddine.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Description

xiii, 137 pages : illustrations; 30 cm

Summary

FAO has developed these guidelines, in collaboration with WHO, to assist countries to identify their capacity building needs in the core components of a national food control system. The guidelines include five modules to assess the needs in: i) food control management; ii) food legislation; iii) food inspection; iv) official food control laboratories; and v) food safety and quality information, education and communication. Each module sets out a step-by-step process to examine critically existing capacity and performance, consider the desired future improved situation, pinpoint capacity building needs and identify options to address them. Internationally accepted benchmarks for an effective national food control system are incorporated, as well as practical tools and suggestions to support the needs assessment process.--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Food > Standards > Management > Methodology
• Food supply > Management > Methodology
• Sécurité alimentaire
• Analyse des risques
• Manuels
• Autorités nationales

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 137).

Contents

pt. 1. Capacity building and the process of assessing needs -- Introduction -- pt. 2. Modules to assess capacity building needs in the core components of a national food control system -- Introduction to the modules -- Module 1. Assessing capacity building needs in food control management -- Module 2. Assessing capacity building needs in food legislation -- Module 3. Assessing capacity building needs in food inspection -- Module 4. Assessing capacity building needs in official food control laboratories -- Module 5. Assessing capacity building needs in food safety and quality information, education and communications (IEC) -- pt. 3. Tools and techniques -- Focus group discussions -- SWOT analysis -- Venn diagram -- Regulatory impact assessment and cost benefit analysis -- Further reading.

ISBN

• 925105536X
• 9789251055366

LCCN

2007474255

OCLC

• ocm77011908
• 77011908
• SCSB-1413851

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library