- Conference on Capacity Building to Support TVET Reform in Egypt Contract 5- Training Session at the Semiramis Intercontinental Hotel on 19/05/09. The conference is Under the auspices of H.E. Rachid Mohamed Rachid Minister of Industry & Trade. The Reform TVET System is a project co-funded by the The European Union and Egyptian Government Egyptian and aims to assist the reform of the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) system.
The Training Sessions Programme (TSP) gives emphasis to:
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raising the capacities of Egyptian officials in the key institutions according to the Programme objectives,
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assuring that key processes in TVET formulation and delivery are functional and
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modernizing the training/guidance principles in TVET delivery.
And the subjects of training are as follows:
. Occupational Standardization, certification and accreditation(Coordinating RMG),
- TVET Centers Management/Centers of Competence Management [Coordinating ETP: Chemical Industries
- Training of masters, trainers and tutors (Coordinating ETPs: RMG - Chemical Industries - Food Processing)
- job seeker guidance and vocational counseling (Coordinating ETP: Food Processing)
- The 14th. National Conference of the Egyptian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (EGSPGHAN) In collaboration with The World Food Program ,United Nation The Pan-Arab Association of Pediatric Gastroenterology ,Hepatology and Nutrition And The Egyptian Society of Child And Environment from 04/07/ 2009 at Renaissance Hotel Alexandria – Egypt and Dr. Nabih the director of EFSIC gives a presentation titled" The Role of Agriculture Research Center and Ministry of Agriculture and land Reclamation on Combating Malnutrition in Egypt". The presentation discussed the role of Agriculture Research Center through Food Technology Research Institute in carrying out and implementing the following to combat malnutrition in Egypt:
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The project of Monitoring Food Consumption Pattern in Egypt and its impact on the health status of mothers and children (2-6 years old),
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National Nutrition Education Program.
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School Feeding Project (SFP)
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childhood and Motherhood Development and Culture Enhancement Project in Egyptian Rural Areas (CMDCEP).
- Regional Workshop on "Harmonization of Food Hygiene Inspections within Africa" Cairo (Egypt), 18th.to 22nd. October 2009 as a technical assistant a detailed report about the workshop and the agenda were enclosed with this report.
Cairo Workshop Programme18-22 October(pdf)
Report of BTSF (pdf)
- Children Nutritional Status on 12/11/2009 with a presentation titled ' The Monitoring of the Food Intake and Nutritional Status in Egypt' the report about this presentation is enclosed with this report.
- In ̀ Camera
2 ́ T.V program in the channel 2 Egyptian T.V Prof.Dr.Nabih A.Ibrahim the
director of EFSIC talked about the importance of the training course in the
common vision ̀Food Safety During Processing ́ which held in EFSIC and defines
the essential elements for the development of the best safety practices and
minimum standard acceptable during processing in food chain starting from the
farm to the consumer (the topics and time frame of this training course are
enclosed with this paper).Then he talked about the Spanish- Egyptian Cooperation
in the field of ̀Food Safety ´where the Spanish party invited 4 groups each of 5
to attend training courses in Spain to; (1) become qualified to give training
actions in the main; Good Agricultural Practices(GAP); Good Consumption
Practices (GCP); Good Manufacturing Practices(GMP) and Hazard Analysis and
Critical Control Points (HACCP) systems; (2)to improve Egyptian staff awareness
for these practices and (3) to train people of the primary sector improving
their knowledge of these systems.
- In BBC
Broadcast Program Prof.Dr.Nabih A.Ibrahim the director of EFSIC talked about ̀
Avian Flue ́ and give a clear and complete concept about this issue in Egypt and
he gives some advices for the consumer about the percussions for safe handling
and dealing with birds.
- Prof.Dr.Nabih
A.Ibrahim the director of EFSIC announced in Al-Ahram Newspaper at ̀ Green Misr
Page´ about the training courses which organized by EFSIC members in the
premises of Food Technology Research Institute (FTRI) during January & February
2006 in the common vision ̀Food Safety˝ for the development of the best safety
practices and minimum standard acceptable in food chain starting from the farm
to the consumer.
-On Thursday 3
November05 at 8:30 am
In Nile T.V / (New
Day) program
Prof. Dr. Nabih A-Ibrahim the director of EFSIC talked about the nutritional health , the daily
recommended allowance for each person and how to prepare a meal sufficient in
various nutrients-also , showed the simplest and easiest ways to reach the
safety and healthy of food . Finally, he announced a bout who to mail or join to
EFSIC to provide the clear information about food safety for all persons in
food-chain .
-On Saturday 20
August 05
Prof. Dr. Nabih the
director of EFSIC talked to radio on air about the nutritional health, food
safety. And he answered all the listeners, questions in these topics.
*In Kuwait Broadcast
Program Prof.Dr.Nabih A.Ibrahim the director of EFSIC talked about ̀Bird Flue´
and he gives comments about the preventive actions for the consumer about safe
handling and dealing with birds.
*In one series of
Egyptian TV program named ̀Health and Sport´ Prof.Dr.Nabih A.Ibrahim the
director of EFSIC talked about:
(a)The implementation
of Good Hygiene Practices (GHP) in the kitchen for introducing safe and healthy
food for all of the family members.
(b)Choosing a
balanced diets/food to insure health food for all ages.
*In other series of
the same Egyptian TV program Prof.Dr.Nabih A.Ibrahim the director of EFSIC
talked about meat substitutes in place of consuming expensive animal proteins.
- On
10/4/2006, and in the program of " Good morning
Egypt", Prof.Dr.Nabih A.Ibrahim discussed the problem of Foot and Mouth Disease and whether it is harmful for
human or not.
- EFSIC
hosted the Channel 2 Camera and they attended the opening of HACCP course . Dr.
Nabih, Dr. Amal Hassanein and Dr. Dalia El-sheikh talked in this program about
food safety systems and the application of HACCP and GMP systems to assure food
safety..
- On
16/4/2006 , Family and Child Channel had a meeting with Prof.Dr.Nabih A.Ibrahim , the subject of the meeting was " Foot and Mouth Disease, it is effects
on meat , dairy and health"
- In Nile Cultural
Channel Prof.Dr.Nabih A.Ibrahim the director of EFSIC talked about the
importance of nutrition, safety-health relations.
- During the Holy month of
Ramadan (October,2006), Dr. Nabih A. Ibrahim and Mr. Mokhtar Harb
had some meetings with Program" El-Hal Fi Edena" in the Egyptian TV Channel II .
They discussed many topics regarding the safety of food during the month of
fasting of Ramadan in about 8 episodes. The episodes were broadcasted in the
same month.
- In Nile Family Channel T.V (May/ 08) Prof.Dr.Nabih A.Ibrahim talked about the best practices of nutrition during student exam period.
- In BBC Channel T.V (29/08/08) Prof.Dr.Nabih A.Ibrahimtalked about Food crises and the use of biofoeles
- Sunday 02/08/09"Sabah El-Khier Ya Maser" about results of the monitoring of Food Consumption pattern and its importance on mothers and children (2-6 Y) and health status. Also, the proportion of stunted children 31%, waste 5%, underweight 10% causes and combating.
- Monday 02/08/09 "BBC Radio" at 04 pm
The differences between organic/natural cultivation and a comparison between them in nutritional value.
- Monday 02/08/09"BBC T.V" at afternoon:
- The differences between organic/natural cultivation and a comparison between them in nutritional value.
- Genetically Modified Organisms(GMO's).
- Saterday08/08/09 Nile News Canal"Sabah Gedeed"
- The differences between organic/natural cultivation and a comparison between them in nutritional value.
- The water contamination and who to avoid that.
- Thuresday13/08/09 in Public programme Broadcast from 1-2:30 pm variation on nutrition and nutrition Awareness.
- Tuesday 18/08/09 "Al-Hora T.V" 10 am
The fasting hours and the best kind of meals in the breakfast and who to avoid some syndromes of fasting like headache and vertigo.
- In Arabic BBC 14/10/09 8:30 pm about hunger in African countries and the specific polices to avoid this state.
- In Arabic BBC 16/10/09 8:30 pm about hunger in Egypt and the specific polices to avoid this state.
- In Al-Kaher Al-Kobra Broadcast 14/10/09
- About the importance and the nutritious of School Feeding Meals
- In Al-Kaher Al-Kobra Broadcast 18/10/09 and In Channel 3 TV program 22/10l2009: About the Regional Workshop on "Harmonization of Food Hygiene Inspections within Africa" Cairo (Egypt).
- In Channel 3 TV program 22/10l2009:
The importance of natural lactation.
Lectures, Forums and Seminars
- On Monday 19
September 05 at 8:30 pm
In Cairo Capital
club, Prof. Dr. Nabih the director of EFSIC give a lecture about food safety
systems and how to apply these systems in different commodities from farm to
consumer esp., for house-wife who considered small producer responsible for a
family and also a consumer .
After that, two-way
discussion stared between lecture , EFSIC members.
Also, some handouts
and lectures were given.
- On Monday 26
September 05 at 9:00 pm :
Prof. Dr. Nabih give
the same later lecture in (Cultural Club) with regard to the suitable ways for
buying and transporting food safety.
After lecture, two-way discussion and some hand outs were introduced
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- Prof.Dr.Nabih
A.Ibrahim the director of EFSIC make a presentation titled in ̀ Avian Flue
´which held in Cairo Cultural Club and he showed the following:
Precautions, Preventions and Meat substitutions.
- One of EFSIC
members Dr. Mokhtar Harb designed a flyer contains special reports about ̀
Bird Flue ́. The flyer in the way of some questions and brief answering of
these questions. This flyer was given to the trainees of the Second Training
Course in common vision ̀Good Consumption Practices (GCP)´
- Some of EFSIC
members prepared a lecture (~11 pages) about ̀Avian Flue (e.g. What is avian
influenza?; transmission and infection;
how can bird flu infect
people?; what are the symptoms?; who is at risk?; Prevention and what is the
public health response.
- EFSIC invited
15 chefs from ̀Egyptian Cooker Committee´ to attend the training course in
̀Good Consumption Practices (GCP) ´in the premises of Food Technology Research
Institute(FTRI) from 05-09, February 2006. The objectives of this course are
summarized as follows:
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To become qualified to give
training actions in the main GCP recommendations.
*To improve Egyptian
Staff awareness for good safety practices in GCP recommendations.
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To train people and improve their knowledge in kitchen,
restaurants, and markets on in safe handling of food and GCP.The topics and time
frame of this training course are enclosed with this paper.
-Dr.Nabih the director of EFSIC and some of EFSIC staff attended the Panel Discussion of “Food Safety: Barrier or Enhancer to Trade” in Conrad Hotel at 23/12/08 which organized by AmCham Egypt and The Trade-Related Assistance Center (TRAC) the Speakers were Dr. Hussein Mansour, Director, Food Safety Agency Management Unit ,Dr. Mahmoud Eissa, Chairman, the Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality Control (EOS), Ministry of Trade and Industry, Dr. Hisham Ragab, Legal Counselor to the Minister, Ministry of Trade and Industry and Mr. Tarek Tawfik, Chairman, Chamber of Food Industries they discuss the role of National Food Safety Agency and how it will be a unifying supervisory authority concerned with implementing standards to ensure the health and safety of food in the domestic market as well as that of Egyptian food exports. Also, Food safety can act as a barrier as well as an enhancer to trade. It is important to ensure not only the safety of traded food but also that of food consumed domestically.
Other activities carried out by EFSIC staff:
*Periodic meeting of EFSIC staff:
On Tuesdays, Dr.Nabih always meets with EFSIC and FTRI staff putting the plan to organize working in "National Nutrition Awareness Project"
Coordination with other partners:
EFSIC coordinates with "The Consumer protection Agency (CPA)" from 15/04/09 to 11/05/09 in doing research surveillance considering 292 Food Retail Companies(mega, super, markets and groceries) in Cairo and Alexandria to assure the implantation of GHP, GSP. At the end of the surveillance study EFSIC members focused particularly on, the importance of raising the awareness of the workers in food retail companies to implement the good practices during storage and handling of food especially, personal hygiene via continuous training
programs.
Coordination with other partners:
EFSIC will coordinate with "The Consumer protection Agency (CPA)" in doing research surveillance considering 35 Food Organic Products in Cairo to verify its origin and if there were any adulteration or not
Possibility of vitamin A fortification of ration cooking oil in Egypt A feasibility and stability"
Some of EFSIC members charred on study called "Possibility of vitamin A fortification of ration cooking oil in Egypt A feasibility and stability" at three levels:
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Industry and distribution analysis ,
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Household observation and
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Fortification trial and vitamin A stability and retention.
The study aims to aassess the feasibility of vitamin A fortification of subsidizes oil in Egypt and quantify all possible losses of the added vitamin in fortified oil from the point of production and storage , through all the steps in the commercial distribution system and up to the household consumptio
Press/Newspapers:
In Al-Masry AL-Youm Newspaper 08/05/09 Dr. Nabih talked about meat substitutions to prepare balanced and nutritious meal. Also, he talked about the differences between cheep and swine meat and the best practices to avoid beard and swine flue (see attached report).
Al-Masry AL-Youm Newspaper
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Egyptian Food Safety Information Center (EFSIC)
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