The CCNASWP Region
Regional Coordinator Fiji
The 18th session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, held in 1989, agreed to establish a new Coordinating Committee for North America and the South West Pacific, bringing together, in the words of the New Zealand delegation "far flung countries ... which have many common interests".
CCNASWP is a remarkably diverse region combining fully mature economies such as the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand with 10 small island states. The largest of these is Papua New Guinea (population over 7 million) and the smallest, the Cook Islands and Nauru with populations of around 10 000.
The regional coordinator is based within the Fijian Ministry of Agriculture.
Fiji looks forward to applying standards at the national level and supporting all countries in the region, especially the small island developing states, to establish a sound policy framework for food safety. These initiatives will support improvements in public health, ensure that imported food is safe and of the expected quality and develop increased access to international markets.
The regional coordinator will continue supporting work on regional standards and seeks to strengthen participation of the region in Codex in general. This can be achieved by continuing to develop capacity at the national level by enhancing the role of national coordinators and contact points for increased and effective participation in Codex.
CCNASWP Coordinator
All information on Codex is public and free.
For regional enquiries contact:
CCNASWP Secretariat
Ministry of Agriculture
Private Mail Bag
Hugh Robinson Complex
Raiwaqa,
Suva.
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.agriculture.gov.fj
Amy Proulx of Niagara College, Canada, writes on her experience of the North American Food Safety Summit
Over the past 2 days, June 7 and 8, 2021, food safety leaders from across North America joined the North American Food Safety Summit, and I had the privilege of being one of the hosts for the event along with my friend, Dr Darin Detwiler at Northeastern University. Setting up a web cam feed that works for camera angles and manages all the scripts and notes effectively takes creativity. To get a good camera angle, I set up a step ladder, and staged all my scripts, schedules and questions along the ladder steps. You can see my bag of snacks off to the left, as we were engaged each day upwards of 4-5 hours straight in live sessions. As I went through script, to get finished sections out of my line of sight, I would toss it onto the office floor. It was really great, but I was fixed to the webcam during almost the entire session.
We had over 200 participants engaged in dialogue and conversation over two days, building relationships for food safety. We discussed the human dynamics of food safety culture and training, along with the rapid advances into internet connectivity, IOT (Internet of Things), blockchain and big data as part of the solution. Our core conclusions - we need to cooperate and collaborate, be change leaders and keep on learning.
Photo - left, Neil Betteridge, Senior Vice President, Global Manufacturing, Fairlife - a Division of Coca Cola; top right, Wendy Kauffman, Vice President of Reputation Management, Brown and Cohen Communications and Public Affairs; bottom right, Jacqui d'Eon, Principal at JAd'E Communications Ltd.
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