Safe and quality food: a shared responsibility
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| Publisher | Milling & Grain |
| Year of publication | 2017 November |
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| Medium | Digital |
| Edition | 1 |
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| Scope & content | By Raghavan (‘Ragha’) Sampathkumar I recently trained a group of people from different countries in Asia and Africa that are working in the Ministry of Agriculture in their respective countries. The programme aimed at providing them some basic concepts of IPM (Integrated Pest Management) and judicious use of agrochemicals. From what I learnt while observing them and also listening to their viewpoints, overall focus on food safety (including chemical residues) must be improved particularly in the low-income countries of the developing world. Food safety is also an important concern for the other countries that export their agricultural produce to different destinations such as the EU and the US, where food safety standards are rather stringent. For millions of farmers in Asia and Africa, who live on their subsistence farms and struggle to make their ends meet, compliance to the food safety and quality standards would be an enormous task…Read more. |
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