Fda’s Regional Programs
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PROTECTION ACTIVPTIESOFTFIE ORGANIZATION Primo Ararnbulo, III and Claudio R. Almeida Pan American Health Organization 525 23rd Street, NW Washington, DC 20037-2895 The food protection activities of PAHO/WHO conducted within the framework of the Regional Plan of Action for Technical Cooperation in Food Protection mandated by the Pan American Sanitary Conference and the Ministers of Agriculture and Health of the region of the Americas. Technical cooperation activities in food protection are carried out by the Veterinary Public Health Program of the Division of Disease Prevention and Control. The staff involved in the delivery of technical cooperation in food protection include a total of some 66 professionals distributed as follows: Program Coordination at the PAHO Headquarters in Washington, DC-4; the Pan American Institute of Food Protection and Zoonoses (INPPAZ) in Argentina-15; the Pan American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Center in Brazil-3 1; and Inter-Country and Country Veterinary Public Health Advisors16. Delivery of technical cooperation is operationalized through: development of policies, plans and norms; resource mobilization; dissemination of information; training; applied research; and expert advisory
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