HACCP was the most popular training program in 2019 as part of an initiative for officials involved in verifying compliance with European rules.

A total of 13 five day training sessions were organized with 313 participants in five countries around Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP).

The European Commission's Better Training for Safer Food Initiative (BTSF) is overseen by the Consumers, Health, Agriculture, and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA). BTSF provides a…

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Max Nisen: In an interview with Axios, Pfizer's CEO Albert Bourla said that the independent board monitoring the trials only began receiving data on the trial last Thursday or Friday, convened to discuss it Sunday, and that he received the information on the positive results later that day. They weren't sitting on the data. If there's any possible point of controversy, it's in a recent…

Rining to participate in debates against Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff ahead of their Jan. 5 runoff in Georgia.

Ossoff's campaign said Monday that Ossoff has accepted six invitations from various media organizations for debates between now and Jan. 5. But Perdue has said no to a Dec. 6 debate hosted by the Atlanta Press Club, and his reelection campaign made it clear that he doesn't plan on debating Ossoff again.

"We've already had two debates in this election," Perdue…

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The 1978 "Star Wars Holiday Special" has become the stuff of legend for how notoriously, epically bad it was, which provides some indication that "The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special" -- with that title alone -- knows precisely what it's doing. The resulting animated hour delivers a clever romp through "Star Wars" history, smartly snapped together and wrapped in a…

Hong Kong had strong volumes that were 140% of the 1-year average as volume leaders were Tencent +1.3%, Alibaba HK +2.91%, Xiaomi +1.79%, Meituan Dianping +2.57%, Semiconductor Manufacturing +2.49%, Ping An +2.69%, Sunny Optical +8.1%, and Geely Auto +0.72%.

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Few congressional Republicans publicly back Trump's charges of election fraud

Only a handful of congressional Republicans have spoken out in defense of President Donald Trump's cries of election fraud and calls to stop the counting in his race for reelection, which has drawn the wrath of the President's sons, who tweeted their frustration and anger about that lack of vocal support from elected Republicans.

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"Where is the GOP?! Our voters will never forget...," Eric…

In 2016 I had never heard of the Democracy Institute (DI) or their polling. On the morning of Election Day 2016, this obscure polling firm issued a shocking poll: Trump will win the US Elections. To be fair, they only got it half right. DI suggested that Trump was going to not only win the election (he did) but also win the popular vote (he did not). DI also accurately predicted the outcome of the Brexit vote in the UK just a few months before the 2016 US Elections. Considering that most…

A feeling of alarm and fear about the future of democracy, from voters across the political spectrum.

For Mr. Trump, who effectively wielded fear of immigration and demographic change in 2016, this campaign has been more challenging.

"There are a couple ways in which the president has chosen an ineffective strategy," said Shana Gadarian, a political scientist at Syracuse. The first is that he has tried to tug on personal worries, like falling property values. "The second," she…