Traduction de «product quality inspector » (Anglais → Français) :

Question No. 39 Mr. Francis Scarpaleggia: With regard to water bottled and sold in Canada: (a) how does the government ensure the quality and safety of this food product; (b) does the government regularly send federal inspectors into all water-bottling plants to test bottling processes and product samples and, if so, how many times per year do inspectors visit a given bottling plant and how many inspectors are currently available for plant inspections; (c) how many inspe ...[+++]ctors were available in February 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, respectively; (d) is a water bottling company required to report to the government the contamination of its product detected by internal testing procedures; (e) is the company required to inform the public and conduct a product recall; (f) how are quality standards for bottled water set in Canada; (g) are standards simply imported from other countries, such as the United States, or are standards developed in Canada for the Canadian market; and (h) what is the relationship between federal bottled-water quality standards and municipal drinking-water standards in Canada?

How many qualified inspectors do we have today on our borders, checking the safety and quality of products coming into the European Union?

Similarly, if there is a problem with the quality of meat, the inspector has the power to stop that piece of meat moving from the production line to the supermarket.

Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis: We had a similar discussion over the past year around natural health products, and when we raised questions about the quality of the product, such as a natural herb coming from China and whether or not that was a genuine, authentic product, it was suggested to us that by having inspectors in those plants in China we were able to ensure the quality and then didn't have to worry at our end.

BLOOD SAFETY AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY - COUNCIL RESOLUTION "THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, RECALLING the Commission communication of 25 May 1993 on blood self- sufficiency in the European Community and its conclusions of 13 December 1993 on that communication; NOTES with interest the Commission communication of 21 December 1994 on blood safety and self-sufficiency in the European Community; REAFFIRMS the need to achieve self-sufficiency in blood and its derivatives in the Member States and in the Community, in particular through cooperation between Member States, in accordance with the principle of voluntary, unpaid blood donations; EMPHASIZES that the efforts to promote the quality ...[+++] and safety of blood collection help to prevent AIDS and other communicable diseases; RECALLS that Directive 89/381/EEC [1] which extends the scope of Directives 65/65/EEC and 75/319/EEC on proprietary medicinal products by laying down special provisions regarding medicines derived from human blood or plasma applies only to these products; AGREES on the need to define a strategy for reinforcing trust in the safety of the blood-transfusion chain and promoting self-sufficiency in the Community; ACCORDINGLY AGREES that, taking full account of the Council of Europe's discussions, the main activities to be undertaken could include: - the development of policies and agreed procedures in the donor-selection process among blood-collection establishments; - the implementation of efficient, validated and reliable screening tests; - the development and use of quality-assessment criteria and good practices regarding the collection, processing and transfusion of blood and blood products and patient follow-up procedures; - development of a haemovigilance system on the basis of existing networks for the collection of epidemiological data related to the blood- transfusion chain; - encouragement of health professionals to make optimal use of blood and blood products; - the establishment of basi ...

- for products for which a common quality standard has not been fixed, and provided that national regulations concerning the quality of fruit and vegetables exported to third countries are applied, to presentation of a document issued by the inspectors of Member States certifying that, at the time of inspection, such products conformed to the regulations.