Bulgaria's Top Vet Heads Food Safety Agency

Business | January 19, 2011, Wednesday // 17:19
Bulgaria's Top Vet Heads Food Safety Agency: Bulgaria's Top Vet Heads Food Safety Agency Dr. Yordan Voynov will be in charge of Bulgaria's newly-established Food Safety Agency.

The Director of the Bulgarian National Veterinary Service, Dr. Yordan Voynov, will head the new Bulgarian Food Safety Agency.

The information was announced Wednesday by the Bulgarian Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov.

Voynov's deputies are: Dr. Tencho Tenchev, Chief Health Safety Inspector at the Health Ministry, Dr. Ventsislava Taseva, Head of the Agriculture Ministry's Directorate for Food Safety, and Anton Velichkov, Head of the Agriculture Ministry's Plant Protection Service.

Boyko Likov will be the Director of the Center for Risk Analysis. Likov is the Director of the European Integration and International Relations with the National Veterinary Service.

Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has approved the proposed team.

The Food Safety Agency Act is expected to be published Friday.

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Tags: YORDAN VOYNov, food safety agency, Miroslav Naydenov, National Veterinary Service, National Plant Protection Service, National Grain and Grain Products Service, Health Ministry, Agriculture Ministry

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