Demographic ageing societies require a timely and well-planned response containing its negative social and economic effects. The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) is a major European Commission led policy initiative to address the challenges of demographic change in Europe and turn it into an economic opportunity, capable of offering better prospects for the ageing population in terms of quality of life and overall health and well-being. The Greek EIP on AHA Network has been developed as a interdisciplinary scientific society, aiming at coordinating multiple remarkable but fragmented trials and group of people in Greece and aligning them with the activities of EIP on AHA.
Η αυξανόμενη δυσπιστία των πολιτών στις θεσμοθετημένες δομές στον τομέα της ασφάλειας των τροφίμων είχε αναμενόμενα αποτελέσει πεδίο έντονου προβληματισμού για τους νομοθέτες και τους πολιτικούς κι είχε συνδεθεί με μια κρίση εμπιστοσύνης σε επιστημονικό και νομοθετικό επίπεδο. H ασφάλεια των τροφίμων αποτελεί ένα ευαίσθητο πολιτικό και οικονομικό ζήτημα, χωρίς όμως να παραβλέπουμε ότι πρωτίστως αποτελεί ουσιαστικό ζήτημα δημόσιας υγείας. Η παρούσα ερευνητική μελέτη έχει ως αντικείμενο τη συγκριτική μελέτη των μηχανισμών επιβολής και εφαρμογής του νομοθετικού πλαισίου ασφάλειας τροφίμων σε Κράτη-Μέλη της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, ενώ σκοπός της είναι η διερεύνηση της ομοιόμορφης εφαρμογής του “πακέτου υγιεινής” χρησιμοποιώντας ως πρότυπα τρία (3) Κ-Μ της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, το Βέλγιο, την Ιρλανδία και την Ελλάδα Το κοινό Ευρωπαϊκό νομοθετικό πλαίσιο για την ασφάλεια των τροφίμων προσπαθεί να παράσχει ένα ενιαίο και αξιόπιστο πλαίσιο προστασίας των Ευρωπαίων καταναλωτών, αφού σε ένα παγκοσμιοποιημένο χώρο η εκπόνηση εθνικών μέτρων δεν είναι αρκετή για να εξασφαλιστεί η αποτελεσματική προστασία των καταναλωτών. H εφαρμογή του “πακέτου υγιεινής” παρουσιάζει μια σχετική ομοιομορφία στα εξεταζόμενα Κ-Μ, με αρκετές διαφορές όμως, λόγω του διαφορετικού πολιτισμικού υπόβαθρου και η πρόκληση που καλούνται να ανταποκριθούν πλέον όλα τα Κ-Μ είναι η εφαρμογή του νέου Κανονισμού για τον επίσημο έλεγχο.
Research article Eρευνητικό άρθροJ HELLENIC VET MED SOC 2018, 69(2): 965-972 ΠΕΚΕ 2018 ABSTRACT. The enforcement of food safety legislation consists of a number of procedures, that may lead in certain cases in imposing administrative penalties and fines, in an effort to alter the nonconformity status of certain food establishments, according to the predefined legislative standards. The aim of this study is to evaluate data upon nonconformity of food establishments in Greece, in order to define trends and frequencies in the general framework of food safety and consumer protection. Hellenic Food Authority (EFET), the competent authority for food safety in Greece, during the period 2005-2013, imposed fines to food establishments that mount to 17,513,900€ for food safety violations.Most of the fines were imposed at mass catering establishments (21.6%) followed by supermarkets (16.2%), food industry (15.1%) and food manufacture establishments (10.7%). Moreover Attica Prefecture is the region with the highest, in number, imposed fines (32.4%), followed in descending order by the Prefecture of Central Makedonia (31.5%) and of Crete (9.6%). Significant difference, in imposing fines (χ2 test, p≤0.05), was observed between mass catering establishments and violations concerning: i. Good Hygiene Practice (GHP) ii. infrastructure, iii. consumer misleading, iv. sale of unsuitable foods, v. preservation temperatures, vi. lack of food handlers training in food safety, vii. lack of food handlers booklet and viii. traceability systems. Moreover significant differences were observed between the level of the imposed fine and the type of violations (t-test, p≤0.05) concerning: i. only or and GHP, ii. only or and the sale of unsafe foods and iii. only or and issues of consumer misleading. According to Pearson coefficient there is a weak negative although significant (p≤0.001) correlation between years and the level of the imposed fines (r=-0.079). In addition violations related to HACCP system, that resulted in imposing fines to food establishments by EFET in 2012, corresponded to 31.8% of the total delinquency concerning HACCP system ascertained by the Prefectural Directorates, that are in charge of official control in the field of food hygiene.
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