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What is the Almanac?

With this online World Food Safety Almanac, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) hopes to reach many people and to give them insight into the world of global food and feed safety. The Almanac outlines different countries' administrative frameworks in the area of food and feed safety. It also describes the public institutions that carry responsibility within these administrative frameworks. The BfR hopes that the Almanac will serve as a useful tool, informing readers about relevant institutions and helping them to quickly and accurately identify potential collaboration partners for international projects. In this way, the BfR aims to promote the harmonisation of existing methods and processes in food and feed safety and to reduce unintentional duplication of work in this field.

Why is the Almanac necessary?

Our food is so much a part of our daily life that we rarely consider how much of it originates from other countries. The globalisation of food production and trading gives consumers an ever widening variety of options from which to choose. However, globalisation also makes consumer health protection more challenging. As supply chains become increasingly complex, the work of scientific risk assessment, risk management and risk communication is becoming more and more demanding. Today, food and feed safety can only be ensured by taking an international approach, through close collaboration among countries and institutions.

A short journey through the Almanac’s history

Since 2009, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment has published the EU Food Safety Almanac in several languages and in both paper and digital forms. In 2017 the 'European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Food Safety Almanac' and the ‘Food Safety Almanac – Special edition: Community of Portuguese Language Countries’ were also released. The latest edition of the EU Food Safety Almanac was published in August 2021. The BfR developed the online World Food Safety Almanac in 2021 to be able to update information on the world of food and feed safety more quickly.

The Almanac's maintenance policy

Countries are asked to update their profile as soon as possible in the event of major changes to their public food and feed safety structure and to check their full profile for accuracy once per calendar year. If a profile is not checked for accuracy for two consecutive calendar years, a message box is added to the profile to indicate that the page contents may be out-of-date.

How can I contribute?

If you wish to add your country and/or your food and feed safety institution(s) to the World Food Safety Almanac, please contact the BfR directly to request an account. With your account you will be able to create your country profile, update the page at any time and add translations into different languages. The BfR is the administrator of the World Food Safety Almanac; however, each country, institution and organisation is responsible for the contents of its own profile. We encourage all countries and all public food and feed safety organisations to enter and update their profiles. We hope to expand the World Food Safety Almanac and to make this platform a comprehensive reference tool for the whole world.

Where can I find further information?

Please go to How to read for further instructions.

If you wish to order a printed copy or download the Almanac as a pdf, please click here. To visit the BfR's website, please click here.

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-With this online World Food Safety Almanac, we hope to reach many people and to provide all of them interesting insights into the world of global food and feed safety. We hope that it helps to learn about the competent institutions and to identify cooperation partners for international projects quickly and precisely. The Almanac describes responsible public institutions and their administrative structures of many different countries. It aims to harmonise existing methods and processes and to avoid duplication of work.
+With this online World Food Safety Almanac, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) hopes to reach many people and to give them insight into the world of global food and feed safety. The Almanac outlines different countries' administrative frameworks in the area of food and feed safety. It also describes the public institutions that carry responsibility within these administrative frameworks. The BfR hopes that the Almanac will serve as a useful tool, informing readers about relevant institutions and helping them to quickly and accurately identify potential collaboration partners for international projects. In this way, the BfR aims to promote the harmonisation of existing methods and processes in food and feed safety and to reduce unintentional duplication of work in this field.
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-The food products we commonly consume are so much a part of our daily life that we hardly think about how much of it originates from other countries. The globalisation of food production and food trading allows for more and more consumer choice. However, it complicates consumer health protection because food and feed safety has to be guaranteed along global supply chains that are increasingly complex. Consequently, stricter requirements have to be met with regard to scientific risk assessments, risk management, and risk communication. Food and feed safety today can only be ensured by taking an international approach, amongst others, through close cooperation and collaboration of different countries and organisations with their competent institutions.
+Our food is so much a part of our daily life that we rarely consider how much of it originates from other countries. The globalisation of food production and trading gives consumers an ever widening variety of options from which to choose. However, globalisation also makes consumer health protection more challenging. As supply chains become increasingly complex, the work of scientific risk assessment, risk management and risk communication is becoming more and more demanding. Today, food and feed safety can only be ensured by taking an international approach, through close collaboration among countries and institutions.
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-Since 2009, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) publishes the EU Food Safety Almanac in several languages as a printed copy and as a digital Pdf. In 2017 a European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Food Safety Almanac and a ‘Food Safety Almanac - Special edition: Community of Portuguese Language Countries’ were also released. The latest edition of the EU Food Safety Almanac was published in August 2021. In order to keep the information up to date and to respond to the dynamics in the field of food and feed safety, the BfR developed the online World Food Safety Almanac in 2021.
+Since 2009, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment has published the EU Food Safety Almanac in several languages and in both paper and digital forms. In 2017 the 'European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Food Safety Almanac' and the ‘Food Safety Almanac – Special edition: Community of Portuguese Language Countries’ were also released. The latest edition of the EU Food Safety Almanac was published in August 2021. The BfR developed the online World Food Safety Almanac in 2021 to be able to update information on the world of food and feed safety more quickly.
+===The Almanac's maintenance policy=== <!--T:14-->
+Countries are asked to update their profile as soon as possible in the event of major changes to their public food and feed safety structure and to check their full profile for accuracy once per calendar year. If a profile is not checked for accuracy for two consecutive calendar years, a message box is added to the profile to indicate that the page contents may be out-of-date.
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-If you wish to add your food and feed safety institution(s) to the World Food Safety Almanac, please send a request via this website or contact the BfR directly to request the access data. With the access data you will be able to create your country profile, to update the page at any time and add translations into different languages. The BfR remains the administrator of the World Food Safety Almanac, however, each country/institution/organisation is responsible for the contents of its own profile.
+If you wish to add your country and/or your food and feed safety institution(s) to the World Food Safety Almanac, please contact the BfR directly to request an account. With your account you will be able to create your country profile, update the page at any time and add translations into different languages. The BfR is the administrator of the World Food Safety Almanac; however, each country, institution and organisation is responsible for the contents of its own profile. We encourage all countries and all public food and feed safety organisations to enter and update their profiles. We hope to expand the World Food Safety Almanac and to make this platform a comprehensive reference tool for the whole world.
-We particularly engage all countries and competent organisations to enter and update their country or organisation profiles. We hope to expand the World Food Safety Almanac in the future and to make this platform a comprehensive reference tool for the whole world.
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-Please go to [[How to Read]] for further instructions.
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-If you wish to order a printed copy, or download the Almanac as a pdf, please click [https://www.bfr.bund.de/en/publication/eu_almanac-192693.html here].
+If you wish to order a printed copy or download the Almanac as a pdf, please click [https://www.bfr.bund.de/en/publication/eu_almanac-192693.html here]. To visit the BfR's website, please click [https://www.bfr.bund.de/en/ here].
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