Food and Beverage Operator (Food health and safety)

Description of Profession

As a Food and Beverage Operator (food health and food safety),every employee is involved in the handling of food and beverages in establishments engaged in one or more of the following activities:

- preparation
- processing
- production
- packaging
- storing
- transportation
- distribution
- handling and offering for sale or supply of foodstuffs and beverages

It should be noted that the food and beverage Operator(food health and food safety) is not a stand-alone profession, but relates to all professions involved in the food chain.

Consequently any special requirements for the exercise of the respective profession (e.g. Butcher, Buffet Person etc.), should be searched and found in the corresponding profession.

Regarding the certification of knowledge and skills in this field, the statutory and regulatory requirements are defined by the 14708/07 (GG 1616 b/17-8-2007) "terms, conditions and procedure for the implementation of compulsory education and training of food business staff and audit authorities and bodies of official food control ', as is the case and as interpreted by the respective circulars of the competent national body i.e. by the single control body Food (Efet, www.efet.gr).

Candidate obtains the certificate after passing the exam.

The certificate is valid for 10 years.

The certified professional obtains:

- Proof of professional qualifications
- Professional ID card, a globally work asset
- Self confidence

However it is worth noting that:

The European Accreditation Bodies have founded the European co-operation for Accreditation (EA), one of the main goals of which is to promote the international recognition of both the accreditation provided by its members and the accredited services by maintaining reliable multilateral agreements (MLAs). ESYD is one of the founding members of EA. Since March 2004, ESYD has become a signatory to the MLAs for Testing Laboratories, Calibration Laboratories and Inspection Bodies and since March 2005 for Certification Bodies for all provided services (persons, products, quality management systems, environmental management systems).

Through the co-operation between accreditation bodies at global level, accreditation recognition of MLAs signatories is expanded to most industrially developed countries, such as U.S.A., Canada, Japan, China, Australia etc.

ESYD regularly participates in the EA General Assemblies and in the meetings of the EA Committees for MLAs, Laboratories, Certification and Inspection Bodies. ESYD is a member of the International Laboratory Accreditation Collaboration – ILAC