Food Imitation Products - Prosafe
Food Imitation Products - Prosafe
Food Imitation Products - Prosafe
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EMARS-II<br />
Enhancing Market Surveillance through Best Practice<br />
Supported by the<br />
Consumer Affairs Directorate<br />
DG Health & Consumers<br />
PROSAFE Joint Action 2010<br />
Joint Action 2010<br />
<strong>Food</strong> imitation products<br />
JA 2010 Launch Event<br />
Brussels<br />
9 March 2011
EMARS-II<br />
Enhancing Market Surveillance through Best Practice<br />
Supported by the<br />
Consumer Affairs Directorate<br />
DG Health & Consumers<br />
PROSAFE Joint Action 2010<br />
Scope of Joint Action<br />
• Serious risks posed by <strong>Food</strong> <strong>Imitation</strong> <strong>Products</strong> to vulnerable<br />
people (children, elderly persons)<br />
– Suffocation due to small parts<br />
– Poisoning due to solvents, poisonous components<br />
– Perforation due to sharp parts<br />
– Chemical pneumonia due to detergents or thin viscous oils<br />
• In general <strong>Food</strong> Imitating products are child appealing<br />
• The Joint Action will not cover child appealing products that<br />
are not <strong>Food</strong> <strong>Imitation</strong> (covered by another Joint Action)
EMARS-II<br />
Enhancing Market Surveillance through Best Practice<br />
Supported by the<br />
Consumer Affairs Directorate<br />
DG Health & Consumers<br />
PROSAFE Joint Action 2010<br />
Objectives<br />
• To reduce the number of dangerous <strong>Food</strong> Imitating<br />
products on the EU Market<br />
• To coordinate the product-specific market<br />
surveillance activities in efficient and harmonized<br />
way<br />
• To develop best practices on inspection, evaluation,<br />
verification of products
EMARS-II<br />
Enhancing Market Surveillance through Best Practice<br />
Supported by the<br />
Consumer Affairs Directorate<br />
DG Health & Consumers<br />
PROSAFE Joint Action 2010<br />
Member States directly involved<br />
• Austria, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania,<br />
Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands,<br />
Norway, Poland, Portugal and Slovakia
EMARS-II<br />
Enhancing Market Surveillance through Best Practice<br />
Supported by the<br />
Consumer Affairs Directorate<br />
DG Health & Consumers<br />
PROSAFE Joint Action 2010<br />
Activities<br />
• Deciding on the frame of the Joint Action<br />
• Deciding on sampling and evaluation criteria<br />
– It may be considered that 30 samples to be tested are<br />
not sufficient for a good overview<br />
• Sample products<br />
• Test products at a laboratory<br />
• Risk assessment<br />
• Follow-up on non-compliant products<br />
• 6 project meetings and final conference
EMARS-II<br />
Enhancing Market Surveillance through Best Practice<br />
Supported by the<br />
Consumer Affairs Directorate<br />
DG Health & Consumers<br />
PROSAFE Joint Action 2010<br />
Comments on Phases of Activity<br />
• Start-up activity – establish objectives, activities<br />
and matrix with main characteristics to be<br />
verified during inspection to spot dangerous<br />
products<br />
• Market Surveillance Activities and action against<br />
dangerous products<br />
• Dissemination of results and follow-up
EMARS-II<br />
Enhancing Market Surveillance through Best Practice<br />
Supported by the<br />
Consumer Affairs Directorate<br />
DG Health & Consumers<br />
PROSAFE Joint Action 2010<br />
Other issues to consider<br />
• Outreach to China<br />
• Strategy for sampling (customs, consumer market, how<br />
many to be verified by inspector and how many to be tested<br />
at the laboratory)<br />
• What is the experience of MS?<br />
• What are the risks posed by <strong>Food</strong> Imitating products?<br />
• Is there any known accident analysis?<br />
• What is follow-up of the Joint Action at each Member State<br />
level?
EMARS-II<br />
Enhancing Market Surveillance through Best Practice<br />
Supported by the<br />
Consumer Affairs Directorate<br />
DG Health & Consumers<br />
PROSAFE Joint Action 2010<br />
Other issues to consider<br />
• Do MS have procedures for assessment of these products?<br />
• How do MS perform assessment for potential <strong>Food</strong> Imitating<br />
<strong>Products</strong> (decision tree, expert panel, qualification of expert,<br />
statistics)?<br />
• Start with paper/desktop exercise before actual sampling?<br />
• Analysis of the existing RAPEX notifications (40 notifications<br />
in 2009)
EMARS-II<br />
Enhancing Market Surveillance through Best Practice<br />
Supported by the<br />
Consumer Affairs Directorate<br />
DG Health & Consumers<br />
PROSAFE Joint Action 2010<br />
Timing<br />
• Currently proposed:<br />
– Kick-off meeting before end of April<br />
– Set-up meeting before end of June<br />
• First phase – start-up (4 months)<br />
• Second phase – Market Surveillance and testing<br />
(12 months)<br />
• Third phase – analysis and dissemination of<br />
results (4 months)
EMARS-II<br />
Enhancing Market Surveillance through Best Practice<br />
Supported by the<br />
Consumer Affairs Directorate<br />
DG Health & Consumers<br />
PROSAFE Joint Action 2010<br />
Questions or want to know more?<br />
Project Leader: D.J.Schakel<br />
Email: durk.schakel@vwa.nl<br />
Project Coordinator: F. Gargantini<br />
Email: garganti@inwind.it<br />
web: www.prosafe.org
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