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WHO Consultation on Pre-Harvest Food Safety 26-28 March 2001, Berlin, Germany FAO and pre-harvest food safety in the livestock and animal feed industry Andrew W. Speedy, Senior Officer (Feed and Animal Nutrition), Animal Production and Health Division, FAO, Rome. Abstract The intensification of livestock production and the increasing trade in raw materials for the feed industry, as well as livestock products, demands greater attention to risk management by all countries. International standards, guidelines and recommendations on food quality and safety are the responsibility of the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission. In 1999, the Codex Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Animal Feeding was established with a view to developing a Code of Practice on Safe Animal Feeding. The Task Force is examining issues relating to raw materials of animal, plant and marine origin, and discussing labelling, traceability and inspection and control procedures. It is suggesting that feed additives should be assessed for safety and approved under stated conditions of use and that antibiotics should not be used in feedingstuffs for growth promoting purposes in the absence of public health safety assessment. It is clear that undesirable substances such as pesticides, industrial chemicals, heavy metals, and microbiological contamination of feedingstuffs should be minimized. For the industrial production of animal feedingstuffs, the producer or manufacturer should establish quality assurance systems based on the principles of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and the application of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles. The Task Force is also addressing the more difficult aspect of GMPs for on-farm production and use of feedingstuffs. Dialogue between the feed industry, livestock producers and government agencies should be encouraged as an essential part of the process of elaborating codes of practice for the industry. This will ensure that eventual regula