Food Safety Statistics Inventory of Data Available in the EU Member States, EFTA and Candidate Countries
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2004 EDITION Food safety statistics Inventory of data available in the EU Member States, EFTA and candidate countries THEME 3 THEME 5 Population Agriculture EUROPEAN and social and WORKING PAPERS AND STUDIES PAPERS WORKING COMMISSION 3conditions 5fisheries Europe Direct is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union New freephone number: 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11 A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet. It can be accessed through the Europa server (http://europa.eu.int). Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2004 ISBN 92-894-7685-0 ISSN 1725-0714 © European Communities, 2004 This document is a first attempt to make an inventory of information on food safety issues, available in Member States, EFTA and Candidate Countries. Due to the wide scope of the project which covers fields "from farm to fork", it has not been possible to make a complete and "in-depth" overview of all data available. The reader should consider this version as preliminary and subject to revisions. Index Foreword 1 Food production, international trade and prices..................................................................................................1 1.1 Conventional agricultural production, imports, exports and prices .......................................................................1 1.2 Inputs in agriculture ........................................................................................................................................10 1.2.1 Seeds............................................................................................................................................10 1.2.2 Fertilisers ......................................................................................................................................14 1.2.3 Biocides ........................................................................................................................................17 1.3 Industry, transport and distribution of food and feed .........................................................................................21 1.3.1 Production of food processing industry and prices...........................................................................21 1.3.2 Packaging .....................................................................................................................................26 1.3.3 Transport of food ...........................................................................................................................29 1.3.4 Other industries strictly related to the Food Safety ..........................................................................33 1.3.5 Distributive channels......................................................................................................................36 1.4 Distinctive agriculture production and products ................................................................................................40 1.4.1 Organic farming .............................................................................................................................40 1.4.2 Integrated agriculture .....................................................................................................................49 1.4.3 Certified EU labels of distinctive agriculture production....................................................................51 1.4.4 Quality wines produced in specified regions....................................................................................58 1.4.5 Other national labels ......................................................................................................................60 1.4.6 Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)........................................................................................64 1.5 Unfit production ..............................................................................................................................................70 2 Animal health and welfare.....................................................................................................................................75 2.1 Animal nutrition...............................................................................................................................................75 2.2 Zoonoses ....................................................................................................................................................... 80 2.3 Animal register, establishment with EU approval and traceability......................................................................84 2.4 Animal transport .............................................................................................................................................91 3 Food consumption................................................................................................................................................94 4 Controls and inspections on food and feed………………………………………………………………………………..101 4.1 Official controls and inspections…………………………………………………………………………………………..101 4.2. Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems………………………………………………………..115 4.3. Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF)…………………………………………………………………….…119 5 Outbreaks, monitoring and risk exposure......................................................................................................... .121 Annex: Main institutions involved in the production of Food Safety related data………………..………………….. 137 Foreword This document is an inventory of Food Safety data available and related information. The entire food chain is considered in this document according to the outlines and the structure of the list of items sent to the Member States and Candidate Countries and presented at the first meeting of Eurostat’s Working Group on Food Safety Statistics held in Luxembourg in April 2003 (Annex I of Doc. ESTAT/F5/ES/11). This document has been compiled on the basis of the answers received to the request for information. Particular attention is put to the items for which importance has been stressed during the meeting. Reference is made as well to the main items for which availability has been reported at Eurostat and other Directorates General of the European Commission (EC). For the acronyms used in this document the user should refer to the Annex. This document was compiled by Landsis, on behalf of Eurostat, in co-operation with the Member States’, EFTA’s and Candidate Countries’ delegates at “Food Safety” Working Group: - Valérie Silvestre - National Institute of Statistics of Belgium - Dagmar Binova - Czech Statistical Office - Børge Nielsen – Statistics Denmark - Martin Schmidt –Federal Ministry of Consumer protection, Food and Agriculture of Germany - Jüri Merendi - Statistical Office of Estonia - Stavros Ladas - Ministry of Agriculture of Greece - Joaquín Serna - Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of Spain - Philippe Pauwels - Central Service for Surveys and Statistical Studies- Ministry of Agriculture Food, Fishery and Rural Affairs of France - Tom McMahon - Central Statistics Office – Ireland - Antonella Finizia - Institute for Services on Agricultural and Agro food Markets, Mario Adua – National Institute of Statistics of Italy - Gundega Micule and Dace Santare - Food and Veterinary Service - Latvia - Aniceta Sapoliene - Statistics Lithuania - Jean-Paul Hoffmann - Rural Economics Service – Ministry of Agriculture – Luxembourg - György Benoist - Hungarian Central Statistical Office - Reinoud Segers - Statistics Netherlands, and Richard Donker - Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality - Netherlands - Eva Milota - Statistics Austria - Maria Maslowska - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland - Sofia Duarte - National Statistical Institute – Portugal - Helena Puc - Statistical Office of Slovenia - Roman Torok - Slovak Statistical Office - Lisa Penttilä - Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry – Finland - Ulf Svensson - Swedish Board of Agriculture and Gunnel Wahlstedt - Statistics Sweden - John Pascoe - Food Standards Agency, and Jim Holding - Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs - United Kingdom - Ole O. Moss - Statistics Norway, and Kjell Hauge, Norwegian Food Control Authority - Norway - Nelly Georgieva - Ministry of Agriculture - Bulgaria - Mariana Clipcea - National Institute for Statistics - Romania Food Safety Statistics Inventory of data Situation at the end of 2003 1 Food production, international trade and prices 1.1 Conventional agricultural production, imports, exports and prices Synthesis of available data at Eurostat Conventional crop production Type of data Level of detail Unit of measure Periodicity Countries Crop production - Crops products: ~ - Area of production Annual EU, EFTA, 90 items, of which - Harvested Candidate Countries cereals, dried production CARDS pulses, rice, root - Yields crops, potatoes, - Land use oilseeds, etc. - Fruits and vegetables: ~100 items Imports /exports Very detailed, i.e. Tons, value Monthly EU, Candidate Products of chapters Countries 7, to 10 and 12 of the EFTA (at HSa) level) Combined Nomenclature Structure of - Number of Every 10 years + EU (national and agricultural holdings holdings 3 intermediate regional) (Source: Eurofarm) - Area surveys Norwayb) Selling prices of crop Very detailed: Absolute prices: Euro, Monthly EU products Cereals, food national currencies, Annual Candidate Countries potatoes, sugar beet,