A Better Training for Safer Food workshop on EU legislation for fishery and aquaculture products takes place in Lima and Paracas, Peru on 26-29 April. Around 60 participants are expected to attend from across Spanish-speaking Latin America. They will mainly be national authority control staff as well as representatives of private sector organisations. The training should increase delegates' knowledge of relevant EU requirements thereby leading to more effective controls and provision of safer fishery and aquaculture products both for domestic markets and export.

The opening ceremony and the first day of the workshop take place in Lima. Initial presentations give an overview of EU legislation for fishery and aquaculture products and outline corresponding legislation in Peru. EU requirements for official controls, fishing and factory vessels, landing sites, auction halls, live bivalve molluscs and processing plants are also covered during the first day.

Following this, two days of training take place in Paracas, mainly composed of site visits for which participants are divided into small working groups. The groups visit establishments linked to the fishery industry such as landing sites, production areas and processing plants. After the visits, participants discuss related aspects of legislative requirements.

Instead of site visits, some participants, including private sector representatives, follow presentations on mollusc pathology, veterinary drug residues in aquaculture animals, border inspection posts and the EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed. In addition, a virtual visit to an aquaculture establishment is planned for certain public sector delegates.

After debriefing from site visits, private interviews with tutors and EC officials will be available for participants. Meetings between managerial staff of the companies visited and tutors are also planned in order to give any feedback arising from the visits on processes implemented within the establishments.