"The influenza virus A (H1N1) is an ordinary virus," he assured the chief of the Food Safety Services and Zoonoses Public Health Directorate of the Ministry of Health, on the second day of V National Congress of Science and Food Technology that has developed today in the Hotel Nelva of Murcia, which is jointly organized by the San Antonio Catholic University and the University of Murcia.
The first to speak was the Director General of the Forum Interalimentario, José Ignacio Arranz, who stressed, in the roundtable "New aspects of food regulation, 'which control the processes of food is a task for all.
"You have to mentalizing from the highest levels of operational responsibility to the most basic levels," he asserted.
He has also starred in this first meeting, the Professor of Nutrition and Food Science, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cordoba, Gonzalo Zurera, which said that "globalization in the international food trade is a major cause for the search food security. "
For his part, Professor of Toxicology and Food Law, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Arturo Anadón, explained what were the general criteria of food security due to food and food ingredients.
Anadón said that the goal of food security begins at the farm, "so-called safety from farm to table", has qualified.
Programme Thursday 28
The morning session, to be held again at the Hotel Nelva of Murcia, starting with a panel discussion on Functional Foods in which intervene the Scientific Coordination Deputy Director General of the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition, Jesus Campos.
Similarly, the program will include several oral presentations.
Source: UCAM