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"Our Food: Food Safety and Control System" Presentations:

Biological Hazards
Chemical Contaminants
Physical Hazards
Hidden Dangers in Industrial Processing
Genetically Modified Organism
Future of Global Nutrition
Halal Foods
Cost reduction versus Food Safety, Quality and Environment
Organic Foods
Global Business and Global Food safety
The Dark Side of Poverty
Environment and Food Safety
International Standards
Complex Food Safety Systems
Food Safety and Quality Systems - HACCP, ISO 9001:2000
WTO and International Agreements
The Cause of Food Scandals
Labeling Scandals

Some interesting external links:
WHO

Codex Alimentarius
Codex Standards - Complete list of Standards adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission up to 2001.Here are all standards available.
JECFA The Joint FAO/WHO Committee on Food Additives
JMPR The Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues
JEMRA The Joint FAO/WHO Meetingson Microbiological Risk Assessment - Highlight are food safety
FAOSTAT - FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual database currently containing over 3 million time-series records covering international statistics in the areas of food, population, production and trade.

TOXNET - Toxicology - National Library of Medicine - A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.
HSDB Hazardous Substances Data Bank - Hazardous Substances Data Bank - Broad scope in human and animal toxicity, safety and handling, environmental fate, and more. Scientifically peer-reviewed.
IRIS Integrated Risk Information System - Integrated Risk Information System - data from the EPA in support of human health risk assessment, focusing on hazard identification and dose-response assessment.
ITER International Toxicity Estimates for Risk - A product of the Cincinnati based Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment, ITER presents chemical risk information from authoritative groups worldwide, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Health Canada, the Dutch National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, as well as independent parties whose risk values have undergone peer review.
GENE-TOX Genetic toxicology (Mutagenicity) - GENE-TOX - Peer-reviewed mutagenicity test data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
CCRIS Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Infos System - Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System - carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, tumor promotion, and tumor inhibition data provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
TOXILINE Toxicology Bibliographic Info - Extensive array of references to literature on biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals.
DART /ETIC Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology - Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology and Environmental Teratology Information Center - Current and older literature on developmental and reproductive toxicology.
TRI Toxics Release Inventory - Annual estimated releases of toxic chemicals to the environment - the Environmental Protection Agency's TRI (Toxics Release Inventory) - reporting years 1995 - 2000.
Chemical Synonyms Structures and More - Numerous chemical synonyms, structures, regulatory list information, and links to other databases containing information about the chemicals.
Chemical Warfare Agents

Terrorism Navy Department Library Research Guide

WebRing - Sites that provide insight to the world of quality assurance or provide links to these ideas. Sites that professional quality practitioners can find work related information including on lone forums. Information on QS9000 and ISO 9000 and quality tools.