The Director of the Bulgarian National Veterinary Service, Dr. Yordan Voynov, will head the new Bulgarian Food Safety Agency. He has been proposed by the Minister of Agriculture and Food Dr. Miroslav Naydenov and approved by the Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
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.
Dr. Voynov is Director General of the National Veterinary Service since November 2008. During the period July-November 2008 Dr. Voinov was Deputy General Director of the NVS. He was Director of the Regional Veterinary Service (RVS) - Sofia, and as a Head of Information Department at RVS -Sofia district. He has worked in the Ministry of Health, where he carried out food control activities. Previously, he worked as intern in the Regional Veterinary Clinic of Samokov, as well as a district veterinarian in the village of Gorni iDolni Okol and as a veterinary technician in a veterinary station in the village of Dragushinovo.
Dr. Voynov is a graduate of the Higher Institute of Zootechnics and Veterinary Medicine, o f Stara Zagora. He has a second Master’s Degree in Veterinary Administration. He has certificates from many courses and specializations in the field of veterinary medicine and food safety. Fluent in English and Russian
The Food Safety Agency Act is expected to be published in the State Gazette.