Food Safety Promotion Board
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The Food Safety Promotion Board , 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), are:
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
and Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
. 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), 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.