MEFOSA from Beirut/Lebanon is the Middle East North Africa Food Safety Association. Permanently they inform by newsletters or webinars about actions how to improve food safety.

An example is the explanation of ISO 9001 and its potential action extension via ISO 22000 or ISO 17025 to go global or to interconnect with the own laboratory or accredited external systems or to measure impacts/benefits.
 

Having been involved in the development of Tracing/Tracking and Good Agricultural Practices in the middle of the 90ies by EHI, Orgainvent and EUREPGAP/GLOBALGAP today Prof.Dr.B.Hallier is pushing those tools of applied sciences mainly by the Sites of the European Retail Academy.

"We need a world-wide interdisciplinary communication about the food-standards and standard-setters. Beside exchanges of staff, teachers and students we should use also the tool of Blended Learning for reasons of lower costs. One of those training-platforms has become the Site Thematic University Network(Food)" he stated at ANUGA 2019.
 

90 percent of the 7590 exhibitors of ANUGA 2019 did come from 106 countries and even 75 percent of the 170.000 visitors had been from abroad (201 countries). Seeing the many booths and visiting experts from China Prof.Dr. Hallier stated that the revived Silk Road works already bi-polar between Asia and Europe!

Hallier pointed also to the fact that at ANUGA 2017 the Thematic University Network (Food) had been established which is a successful tool to penetrate joint standards for the Total Supply Chain globally. More about the TUN-network :

The SGGW/Warsaw University of Life Science starts the winter semester of 135 students from 21 countries by an awareness seminar for intercultural behaviour. For Prof.B.Hallier the adaptation to disruptive markets can be learned best by such international experience of different cultures. Among the SGGW-students is within a three-months ERASMUS exchange program the former ERA-trainee and today's PhD-candidate from Sofia/Bulgaria Nora Tineva.

SGGW is co-founder of the Thematic University Network (Food) which has been created at the ANUGA 2017 exhibition in Cologne/Germany.The program Erasmus began in 1987 and offers today the possibility of conducting mobility for students and teachers with a monthly funding (grant) within Universities in the European Union and beyond. Further on it also allows the opportunity of conducting traineeships under the same funding frame.
 

ZIIOT and partners organized in Foshan/China the Second International Two-dimensional Code Industry Conference. Among its speakers had been Dr.Zhang/ZIIOT, Nobel Laureate Prof.Chung, S.Nugerbekov/G-Global and Prof.B.Hallier.

Prof.Hallier stated that after the periods of printed barcodes and the chip technologies now the third generation of codes can link brick and stone retail with m-commerce and that the Internet of Things will revolutionize the traditional definitions of store formats.