Global Food Security – Managing the Risks

Chris Elliott, Director, Institute for Global Food Security and Professor of Food Safety, Queen’s University, Belfast

Food Security

Water Energy

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Crop production

Transportation and storage

Incorporation into processed feeds

Transportation and storage

Livestock

Transportation and storage

Purchased by consumer

storage

Transportation and storage

Processing

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Accidental and deliberate contamination of the NI supply chain

• Pre-farm (contaminated feed materials from imports)

• At farm (contaminated feeds, illegal drug use)

• Processing (introduction of contaminated ingredients, contamination during processing, packaging)

• Transportation (illegal substitution, accidental contamination)

• Storage facilities ( illegal substitution, accidental contamination)

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Pre-farm risks identified as those that will contaminate multiple sectors and have the greatest impact of the integrity of the NI food industry

•Dioxins and PCB contamination

•Microbiological contamination •Pesticide contamination

•Veterinary drug contamination

•Heavy metal contamination

•Meat and bonemeal contamination

•GMO contamination

•Mineral oil contamination

Fraud

•Fungal and Plant toxins

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• A Risk Based System to strengthen integrity of feed supply chain in NI

• An industry driven initiative

• A world’s leading programme of supply chain assurance is under development

‘The Institute for Global Food Security must be commissioned to review the Northern Ireland supply chain and identify further risks and opportunities for collaborative improvement in food assurance’

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Working Together for Growth – Thinking Globally, Acting Locally