The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the priority issues to further develop the NFA work processes and to set clear deadlines for the progress of the multisectoral approach with which the NFA staff is working under the assistance of experts provided by IPA 2016 project to raise the level of NFA according to the standards of counterpart institutions in the EU.

“Specifically, discussions focused on the process of improving the risk-based methodology that will be implemented in the planning of annual audits of NFA and the development of procedural documents in many work chains of the institution,” NFA said.

The food safety and veterinary project is part of the IPA 2016 program funded by the European Commission implemented by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland; the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Navy of Ireland; the Finnish Food Safety Authority and the Albanian partner CBS-Creative Business Solutions.//a.i/

According to NFA, during the inspections, 24 warning measures have been issued to food businesses for lack of staff health booklet, renewal of bacteriological analysis of water, exceeding the deadline of the 3D plan.

Also, based on the Sampling Plan, 2 samples were taken to monitor the quality and safety of food products.  //a.i/