Training personnel of official food safety control services (Prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Rural Affairs - National School of Veterinary Services, France)

摘要

Vocational training is not an objective per se but a tool for policy implementation in a given administrative and juridical framework. The context determines needs, constraints and solutions. Any focus on the training of personnel in the food safety control services of different countries of the world requires an insight into their operational context and key developments. The organizational structures and areas of competence of these services are also decisive in determining training responses. We need to go beyond national particularities and discern elements of common interest in order to describe the existing situation and, above all, in order to fuel thought to the future. The international standards of the Codex Alimentarius and OIE, which have served as the WTO framework of reference since 1995, have converging provisions on the quality of official control and inspection services and on the status, competence and training of personnel, especially regarding official certification. These texts are cited more in terms of objectives to be reached than means to be implemented.