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MeetingAddressing Food Safety Challenges of the Asia-Pacific Region 2018In the Asia and the Pacific region, food safety is important from the dual perspectives of improving public health and nutrition and enhancing trade in food commodities. Concerns of consumers on the fitness for consumption of food produced and traded across borders needs to be allayed through effective risk-based systems that assure safety and quality throughout the food chain. The paper discusses the key challenges being faced, some solutions, and potential partnerships (private sector, civil society, South-South triangular cooperation, development partners) that can be used to enhance food safety systems in the region. It describes FAO’s contribution to the strengthening of technical capacity to implement risk-based approaches in critical areas such as food inspection, monitoring, and surveillance; laboratory analysis; import control and strengthening the evidence base required for the framing of rules, regulations and procedures. It explains, with examples, how improved food-control measures and codes of practice can be implemented at every step of the chain, enabling smallholders to produce safer food and gain access to markets. It underscores the importance of implementing FAO’s action plan for tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through technical capacity development, evidence generation, governance and dissemination of good practices. The paper dwells on FAO's One Health Regional Initiative, currently being rolled out, as an expanded multidisciplinary opportunity to demonstrate benefits to agriculture, food systems and the environment in the region. It argues that the adoption of voluntary and international food standards, especially from Codex, can lead to multiple wins for the consumer, for the private sector and the government in the form of safer and more nutritious food, increased innovation and trade and better public health. Ministers are invited to advise FAO on areas of focus in the development of national capacities in core technical areas of food safety and cohesive actions to harmonize food safety standards in the Asia-Pacific region to safeguard public health and promote trade.
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Book (stand-alone)Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC). Report of the meeting of the ad hoc working group of experts in food safety 1999
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Book (stand-alone)The Implications Of The Gatt Uruguay Round And Other Trade Arrangements For The Asia-Pacific Forest Products Trade
Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study Working Paper No: APFSOS/WP/03
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No results found.An analysis of the significance for forest product import and export of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The likely impact on the countries of the Asia-Pacific region is discussed, with individual analysis for each country.
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