Participation in study tour to attend Seafood & Health ’05 Conference & Seafood HACCP Alliance for Education & Training

Funded Activity Summary

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.

Objectives:
1. Promoting Australia’s work on the issues to be discussed at both Conference and Meeting and influencing any international decisions that are discussed in the two forums. By contributing expertise and knowledge to the forums the opportunity to influence discussions on two levels – regulatory area and research area. Both are relevant to Australia due to reliance on international markets and potential flow on to domestic market.
2. Gather information including contacts from both the forums to ensure that the Australian Seafood Industry is fully aware of the outcomes and can utilise the information to maximise its position.
3. Identifying any issues that could be considered by the Australian Seafood Industry/SSA/FRDC in development and communication areas based discussions with National Fisheries Institute (NFI)

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 06-11-2005

End Date: 11-07-2006

Funding Scheme: Funding Scheme not available

Funding Amount: $5,000.00

Funder: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

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