Roberto Brazão

INSA
Lisboa Portugal

Biographical Sketch: Member of the Monitoring and Surveillance Unit of Food and Nutrition Department team at the Portuguese National Institute of Health in Lisbon since July 2012. He got his degree on Food Engineering at the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) in 2005 and in 2012 the degree on Advanced Study in Public Management at National Institute of Administration (INA) allowed him to integrate the National Health Institute Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA,I.P) and be a team member of the Portuguese Food Information Resource Programme - PortFIR and also of the Portuguese project of electronic transmission chemical occurrence data. His current main areas of work are management of the PortFIR working groups and compilation and transmission of data. He gained experience in SSD, and food codification, namely Foodex2, in the scope of the studies and research works conducted by the PortFIR working groups and of the projects NP/EFSA/DCM/2012/03/01 and CFP/EFSA/DATEX/2011/01/02. He was a trainee in the area of physical-chemical and microbiological food at the Technology Department of Food Industries (DTIA) – National Institute of Biological Resources (INRB, I.P.), and worked in the development of food safety manuals, implementation of quality control best practices in food supply markets and certification of food products at the Qualification System and Food Safety Division - Madeira Regional Agriculture Department. In 2009/2010 he was part of a team responsible for the compilation, processing and transmission of agricultural production data, for Madeira Regional Directorate of Statistics, as well as technician at Madeira Farmers Association (AAM) responsible for technical support and training to the AAM associates, development of formation courses and manuals, and direct support to applications to European Union funds.

Papers:
P1-09 Educational Instruments for Food Safety and Nutrition