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Meeting proceedings: FAO national training workshop on strengthening food safety standard setting and enhancing effective participation in Codex activities

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Bangkok, Thailand ;

Pages 30 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The national training workshop on Enhancing Effective Participation in Codex Activities in the Philippines was conceptualized as a Way Forward after the participation of government officials who are National Codex Organization members to the FAO Regional Training Workshop on Enhancing Effective Participation in Codex Activities in ASEAN Countries that was held on 9-11 January 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Training Workshop on Enhancing Effective Participation in Codex Activities was held on 30 August to 1 September 2017 in Sequoia Hotel, Quezon City, Philippines. The activity was jointly organized by the National Codex Organization (NCO) and the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Animal Industry (DA-BAI) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations- Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (FAORAP). A total of forty nine (49) participants consisting of personnel from the food safety regulatory agencies of the Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and the private sector actively participated in the three-day training workshop. Three (3) ASEAN participants from Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam served as observers so that they will have an idea as to how a national Codex training can be organized in their respective countries.

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