Participation in study tour to attend Seafood & Health ’05 Conference & Seafood HACCP Alliance for Education & Training
The Seafood HACCP Alliance meeting - important to ensure that Australian Seafood Industry are fully briefed about changing requirements in the USA market. The USFDA is launching a new Fishery Products Guide in 2006. To be up to date, aware of the changes and to be able to meet the relevant people making and enforcing the new arrangements is significant. There will be training implications for Australia. The Conference - relevant to SSA activities in food safety, quality and chain management and potentially other new areas for the industry eg new CRC, Promotion & Market Development, etc as well as FRDC/SSA consumer education information. NFI meeting – learning of their handling of change relevant to issues in Australia.
Final report
SCRC: Seafood CRC: Develop, conduct and analyse a small survey of seafood buyers at ESE 2008 to help assess the relative importance of key attributes of Australian seafood in influencing purchasing decisions.
SSA Core Membership of the Australian Food Safety Centre of Excellence
The rapidly changing global trading environment is placing increasing demands on Australia's seafood
industry to demonstrate that their product is safe and that it will not cause illness now or in the future.
Meeting these demand means that seafood businesses need to understand and manage the food safety
risks associated with their products and processes.
Changes to the natural environment, including through increased pollution of the marine environment
has resulted in new and emerging food safety issues that need to be better understood to enable them to
be managed. Development of new products and processes designed to increase shelf life and improve
convenience to the consumers also pose food safety management challenges
Meeting these needs individually would require significant investment. Tapping into a global network of
experts and undertaking research as part of a national food industry dvelopment effort will leverage
investment into these areas.