Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 13
Trend:
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree on ensuring the activity of the Food Security Agency.
The decree approves the "State of the Food Security Agency" and "Structure of the Food Security Agency". Under the decree, the limit of the staff of the Food Security Agency is set at 75 staff positions.
Furthermore, a public legal entity, the Azerbaijan Food Security Institute, is created under the Food Security Agency.
The decree determines that the Azerbaijan Food Security Institute conducts scientific and practical research in the field of food safety, carries out risk assessment on the basis of scientific principles, develops drafts of technical regulations in the field of food security and represents by designation, renders services in the study of safety indicators of foodstuffs.