APEC 2011: Food Safety Activities Julia Doherty Office of the U.S. Trade Representative January 27, 2011

APEC 2011 Advancing Regional Economic Integration Promoting Green Growth Regulatory Cooperation and Convergence

Big Sky, Montana May 14-15Incident Management Workshop May 16PTIN Steering Group Meeting and PTIN Roundtable May 17Food Safety Cooperation Forum Meeting

Food Safety Incident Management Seminar  Best practices in development and use of incident response protocols  Techniques to assess risk in responding to food safety incidents  Application of risk management and risk communication principles  Develop seminar content into a PTIN module

FSCF PTIN Events PTIN Steering Group meeting PTIN Roundtable Event –Industry, government, academia, and inter-governmental organizations to participate –Roundtable review the PTIN’s progress Workshops held Public release of first training modules PTIN website as a training platform –Provide input on forward vision and onward collaboration

Food Safety Cooperation Forum –Third meeting of APEC food safety regulators –Report on outcomes achieved against FSCF goals and FSCF 2009 Recommendations in: Communication and information sharing Food safety capacity building Food safety standards and regulatory systems –Rank food safety capacity building priorities –Discuss recommendations for forward work –Signing of APEC FSCF Statement 2011

For further information, please contact: Julia Doherty Office of the U.S. Trade Representative