Mission / Vision / Key values

Elika, Basque Foundation for Food Health, is a public foundation created by the Economic Development and Competitiveness in 2001, whose aim is to:

• Provide autonomous governments with technical advice on the development of policies and preventive actions relating to Agrofoods Safety, from the very beginning of the food chain.
• Coordinate, provide information and technical advice to a number of different public organisations in the field of Animal Health and Food.
• Support the primary food processing and marketing sector in the application and improvement of Food Safety systems.

Recognition within the Basque Autonomous Community by our Interest Groups, such as:

• Organisations in which the policies of all the agents involved in Agrofood Safety in the Basque Autonomous Community converge and come together.
• Reference organisation (that provides added value) in Agrofoods matters.
• Promoter organisation of overall improvements in Agrofoods Safety.

• We work with professionalism, initiative and creativity.
• We believe in teamwork.
• We seek the satisfaction of our interest groups.
• We seek continuous improvement in all our activities.
• We are committed to the use of the Basque language.