Arcadia International is pleased to welcome Katlijn Linster as a senior associate specialised in international food policy developments including food safety, labelling, and new technologies.
Katlijn has a 15-year international experience in the food industry, in Europe and Asia, in various scientific functions, regulatory affairs and communication. She held several management functions for Tate & Lyle, a world-leading manufacturer of food ingredients during 10 years in Belgium and 2 years in Singapore.
Kalijn was also Deputy Director of the Asian Food Information Center (AFIC) in Singapore, leading the association’s issue monitoring and management programs on food safety and nutrition issues in Asia.
Katlijn graduated as engineer at the faculty of Bioscience Engineering in Ghent (Belgium) and holds a one-year specialization on food science from the University of Montpellier (France).
On 24th April 2010, Dr. Rodolphe de Borchgrave gave a presentation entitled “EU GMO Legislation and the Turkish Bio-safety law” at the Annual Meeting of Tüyem, the professional organisation of the Turkish Animal Feed Manufacturers. This gathering took place in Antalya (Turkey) and was attended by some 900 participants. The Turkish Bio-safety law came very recently into force and is of particular concern for the feed industry, a massive importer of soya products. The EU regulation is of interest for Turkish operators and government because of the legislative alignment that is part of the pre-accession process.
Arcadia International experts are involved in two key evaluations of the European Commission DG SANCO, that have been launched in early June. These evaluations concern the Community Plant Health Regime (CPHR) which has never been evaluated and dates back to the 70s, and the GM Food and Feed legislation.
For more information, please visit the DG SANCO website where these two evaluations are presented or contact Daniel Traon.
On the behalf of CIAA, within the Business Support Programme (BSP) project framework, Arcadia International assessed the level of compliance of Turkey vis-à-vis the European policy and regulatory framework regarding food safety. This implied benchmarking Turkey's progress against EC standards and milestones e.g. regulation, administrative arrangements, implementation, procedures, systems, resources, etc.
Arcadia won a four-year contract with the European Commission (EC DG SANCO) through the FCEC consortium for the provision of evaluation, impact assessment and related services in the field of the food chain. This contract is a renewal to a previous four-year contract with the European Commission.
For more information, contact Daniel Traon who is leading Arcadia efforts for this project.
On 11th March 2009, Rodolphe de Borchgrave, Associate consultant with Arcadia International, made a presentation on 'Innovation in the agrofood value chain' at the Conference on 'EU Food Industry and Market:Implications for the Serbian Economy' in Belgrade. This conference was organised jointly by CIAA (Confederation of the food and drink industries of the EU) and by Prikvredna Komora Beograda (the Chamber of Commerce of Belgrade), with a view to assist Serbian agrofood companies increasing their presence in the EU market.
Together with Deloitte and the LEI Wageningen University, Arcadia has been selected by DG AGRI for the evaluation of CAP measures related to small 'CMOs', hops, fibre plants and seeds.
The first evaluation to be carried out in 2009 is the evaluation of the hops sector in the EU.
Following the evaluation of the Community acquis of seed, Arcadia starts 2 new projects for DG SANCO. The first project is analysis of the economic, social and environmental impacts of options for the long-term EU strategy against Diabotrica virgifera (Western Corn Rootworm), a regulated harmful organism of maize. The second study is on the introduction of electronic identification (EID) as an official method to identify bovine animals within the European Union.
The Arcadia International web site has a new look - and new features - intended to make it easier to use. The list of consultants has, also, been updated.
After the 2 seminars organised in Rennes(FR) and in Den Haag(NL), Arcadia prepares additional seminars on EU food competitiveness for EC DG ENTR. 2009 program starts with a 2 days events planned in early March in Thessaloniki, Greece.
