Thursday, 26 November 2009 05:15 DAP-NEWS
(Posted by CAAI News Media)
FAO and the Commerce Ministry on Wednesday said are holding a workshop on science-based risk management to strengthen food safety today at the FAO office.
The workshop will be presided over by Mak Pichrith, delegate of the Royal Government of Cambodia in charge of Camcontrol, and Ajay Markanday, FAO representative, a statement from the FAO said.
The workshop will assist participants from different Government agencies deal with food safety issues using risk analysis tools, science, good policy and effective communication. The Ministry of Commerce and FAO conducted the first part of the workshop in September with funds provided by the New Zealand Agency for International Development. The workshop aims to assist Senior Risk Managers and their Scientific Advisors identify and answer priority food safety problems. Officials from the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and Ministry of Health attended the workshop, facilitated by Dr Richard Ellis and Dorothy-Jean McCoubrey, and identified problems considered to be significant food safety issues for Cambodia.
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