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1 Food Safety Governance in Finland Veli-Mikko Niemi Director of Food Safety Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

2 Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Administrative sectors: Agriculture Finland Food safety and quality Fisheries, game and reindeer husbandry Water economy Forestry Real Estate and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Land survey

3 Departments and units of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry STATE SECRETARY Risto Artjoki SPECIAL ADVISER TO THE MINISTER Tiina Rytilä MINISTER Jari Koskinen PERMANENT SECRETARY Jaana Husu-Kallio INTERNAL AUDIT Sari Anttila FOOD DEPARTMENT Heimo Hanhilahti Finance Team Esa Hiiva Food Safety Veli-Mikko Niemi Animal and Plant Health Riitta Heinonen Rural Development Taina Vesanto Rural Network Päivi Kujala Agriculture Arja-Leena Kirvesniemi Markets Veli-Pekka Talvela Legal Affairs Tanja Viljanen NATURAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT Juha Ojala Finance Team Fisheries Industry Markku Aro Recreational Use of Nature Christian Krogell Natural Resources and Water Management Kai Kaatra Forests and Bioenergy Marja Kokkonen Legal Affairs Vilppu Talvitie Bioeconomy Liisa Saarenmaa EU Coordination Kari Valonen Research Mikko Peltonen ADMINISTRATION AND PLANNING DEPARTMENT Pentti Lähteenoja Human Resources and Administration Eeva Pystynen International Affairs Aulikki Hulmi Steering and Information Management Raimo Vajavaara Finances Hannele Laihonen Media and Communications Pekka Väisänen

4 Food legislation food legislation is for the most part harmonised at the Union level national food legislation complements relevant EU legislation use of internationl standards is mainly indirect via their influence on the preparation of the EU legislation within the are there is no harmonised legislation the Codex standards have been used as a basis for national measures 4

5 Food legislation Food Act 23/2006 from farm to fork: requirements for all food, all food business operators, all food establishments food safety, food quality consumer protection, consumer interest traceability, food chain information (FCI) food control (also own-checks) laboratories administrative coercive measures, charges, penalties governmental and ministerial decrees 5

6 Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) Department of Food (DF) DH directs quality and safety in the food chain from farm to fork - quality and safety of foodstuffs and agricultural inputs - animal health and welfare - plant health MAF / DH is responsible for - development of food legislation (national level - EU - international fora) - leading the food safety administrative branch and general planning of food control 6

7 Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) Department of Food (DF) food safety and quality is one of the main objectives of the MAF covers the whole food chain - safe food healthy people, animals and plants Finnish agriculture and food production system is derived by the consumers, is competitive at the international level and follows the principles of sustainable development

8 P-P co-operation end-product testing failed operators are responsible for food safety (EU regulation 178/2002) official controls only ensure that operators follow their duties HACCP, own check systems, health care programmes examples: Finnish Salmonella Control Programme Finnish Dairy Hygiene Association ETT National Animal Health Care

9 National Salmonella Control Programme started in 1970s funded by industry Approved by Commission decision 94/968/EC, started 1995 Covers live poultry, cattle and pigs, eggs and meat Target: annual prevalence for Salmonella spp. 1% in each animal and meat category Analyzing of samples at approved laboratories; laboratories send report (number of investigations and results) to Evira monthly In addition strict salmonella control of feed zero tolerance policy: always action when salmonella is detected

10 Results ; Salmonella positive (%) broiler and turkey flocks at farm (brown) and poultry meat at cutting plants (red)

11 Results Pigs: salmonella positive (%) lymhnode samples (brown), carcass samples (grey), cutting plant samples (red)

12 Results Cattle: salmonella positive (%) lymphnode samples (brown), carcass samples (grey), cutting plant samples (red)

13 The criteria of quality levels for raw milk in Finland The number of bacteria (cfu/ml) (Geometric mean of 2 months) Level Somatic cell count/ ml (Geometric mean of 3 months), < E < I > II >

14 The % of E-level milk in

15 Cell counts in years

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