The Second International Meeting on Food Control Research” was held in Latvia, Riga on April, 9th-11th, 2014. The meeting discussed widely food control from the surveillance of food-borne diseases to the disclosure of food control inspections.
“Food control research is a central research area in environmental health control, which is gaining increasingly more visibility around the world. “Those who carry out food control appreciate that food control organizations and methods are exposed to research so that food control can be developed” tells Janne Lundén, who examines the efficiency of food control.
The meeting was attended by about 50 food control researchers from eleven different countries, including the United States, Ireland, the UK, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark.
Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health was strongly represented at the meeting, the meeting was attended by Professor Hannu Korkeala, University Lecturers Mari Nevas and Janne Lundén, as well as Doctoral Students Karoliina Kettunen, Jenni Luukkanen, Tiina Läikkö- Roto, and Satu Tähkäpää.
Department’s researchers presented the following lectures at the meeting:
- Introduction by Mari Nevas
- Food control methods by Janne Lundén
- Use of enforcement measures in the local food control units in Finland by Karoliina Kettunen
- Distribution of meat inspection tasks in the high-capasity slaughterhouses by Jenni Luukkanen
- Consistency in the inspection processes of food control officials as the disks by Tiina Läikkö-Roto
- Patterns of food frauds by Satu Tähkäpää.
The meeting was arranged by the Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment (BIOR) in collaboration with the Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Latvia University of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia, Food and Veterinary Service.
The meeting was the second in order. The first meeting was held in Helsinki in 2008, and it was organized by the Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health. The next meeting will be held in Ireland 2017.
The homepage of the meeting: http://www.bior.gov.lv/en/left-menu/news/meeting-2014