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Name
Blaise Ouattara
Title
Regional Food safety and Quality Officer for Africa at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Regional Office for Africa (RAF), Accra, Ghana
Bio
Prior to joining RAF, Dr. Ouattara was seconded by the government of Canada to FAO, Rome, Italy to provide high-level expertise to the activities of the Food Safety and Quality Unit in the area of scientific advice regarding various aspects of food safety and quality. At the FAO RAF, he is responsible for technical support and capacity development in various areas of Food Safety including Food Safety Risk Analysis, Food Control Systems, SPS measures and Codex Alimentarius.
Before joining FAO, Rome, he worked at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in the Policy and Program Branch as a national Specialist, Food Microbiology and in the Science Branch as Chief of the risk prioritization and profiling unit. Among his responsibilities, he led the development of the CFIA’s risk prioritization and profiling process and the abattoir component of the Canadian Integrated Program on Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS). He also has a strong industry experience as the Technical Director of the Canadian Meat Council (CMC), the largest Canada’s federally registered meat packers and meat processors.
Dr. Ouattara has been a lecturer on Food Safety, Food microbiology, and meat inspection at the University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), University of Ottawa (Canada) and University of Quebec in Montreal (Canada).
Before joining FAO, Rome, he worked at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in the Policy and Program Branch as a national Specialist, Food Microbiology and in the Science Branch as Chief of the risk prioritization and profiling unit. Among his responsibilities, he led the development of the CFIA’s risk prioritization and profiling process and the abattoir component of the Canadian Integrated Program on Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS). He also has a strong industry experience as the Technical Director of the Canadian Meat Council (CMC), the largest Canada’s federally registered meat packers and meat processors.
Dr. Ouattara has been a lecturer on Food Safety, Food microbiology, and meat inspection at the University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), University of Ottawa (Canada) and University of Quebec in Montreal (Canada).
