Food Safety Promotion Board
The Food Safety Promotion Board (Template:Lang-ga;[1] Ulster-Scots: Tha Mait Safétie Fordèrin Boord[2] or The Meat Sauftie Forder Buird),[3] trading as safefood, is the body responsible for the promotion of food safety in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It is one of the six originally planned cross-border (all Ireland) bodies set up following the Good Friday Agreement.
Its functions, as proscribed in law (British Irish Agreement Act 1999, annex I, part 2),[4] are:
- Promotion of food safety
- Research into food safety
- Communication of food alerts
- Surveillance of foodborne disease
- Promotion of scientific co-operation and laboratory linkages
- Development of cost-effective facilities for specialised laboratory testing.
References
- ^ 2006 annual report in Irish North/South Ministerial Council.
- ^ 2006 annual report in Ulster-Scots North/South Ministerial Council.
- ^ 2010 annual report in Ulster-Scots North/South Ministerial Council.
- ^ British-Irish Agreement Act, 1999
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