The Committee should focus its activities in the two basic spheres of influence on food safety. These spheres could be called The Agricultural Production and The Pollution of Agro-ecosystems (water, soil and air).

These spheres are shown on the picture "Risks and Hazards Assessment in Agriculture and Food Industry" (in the circle).

• Stored food and commodities


• Arthropods and rodents role as mycotoxin vectors


• Bio-contamination of pathogens and arthropo-allergens


• Monitoring and diagnostic of stored product insects and rodents


• GMO utilization for stored pests' regulation

• Chemical analysis of food


• Food safety criteria


• Contamination of food chains, potential of minimization


• Pesticide residues problems


• Mycotoxins

• Chemical Ecotoxicology, Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology


• Risk Analysis, Monitoring Systems


• Environmental Impact Assessment


• The fate of persistent organic pollutants in the environment, environmental impact assessment, risk analysis

• Farm Crops and Mycotoxins


• Plant Diversity


• Plant Breeding (grain)


• Molecular Markers

• Entomology, plant medicine


• Monitoring and diagnosis of pests and its natural enemies


• Study of plant resistance to pests and new instruments of biological control development


• Pest risk assessment


• Assessment of GMO transgenic products efficiency in plant control

• Genetics and plant breeding (grain)


• Molecular biology


• Utilization of diversity


• GMO problems (detection, safety and ethics)


• Development of markers for assisted selection

• Plant pathology, plant protection and plant biotechnology


• Study of resistance to virus and fungal pathogens


• Selection of resistant material, genetics of resistance


• Study of important pests of fodder plants, study of genetic markers (PCR, RAPD methods)


• Toxicology and fusarium toxins

• Fungal Plant Diseases


• Herbicide treatment effect on the incidence of plant diseases


• Pesticide application impact on microscopic phytopathogenic fungi


• Host - pathogen interaction

• Mycotoxins


• Farm crops


• Plant products quality


• Electrophoretic analysis of hordein (SGE) and esterase (PAGE) proteins


• Plant products contamination

• Soil contamination


• Changes in functional and species diversity of soil organisms


• Soil fertility disorders


• Soil organisms impact on conversion of heavy metals from soil to plants


• Biological components of soils and their quality

• Heavy metals, their accessibility and remediation (plants, products)


• Soil fertility and contamination, transfers between soil and plant


• Using of waste products, risks


• Contaminants of inorganic origin, nitrates


• Pollutants of risk elements

• Study of ecology loaded area


• Retrospective monitoring of risk chemical


• Reclamation of devastated land and decontamination of polluted soils


• Soil and farm crop (contamination)

• Plant protection, pesticides


• Using of determination method in epidemiology


• Spread of fungi pathogens


• Diagnostics, monitoring and epidemiology of quarantine and phytopathogenic species of fungi, bacteria and viruses

• Potato bulbs


• Potato food products


• Potato bulbs for feeding


• Soil and crop production (contamination)