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Caribbean exporters urged to strengthen food safety systems

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Aug. 18, CMC – Food manufacturers from across the region have been encouraged to strengthen food safety methods to achieve a greater level of international market access and trade.

During a two-day workshop here, representatives from across the region were urged to raise their standards.

The sub-regional workshop on “Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) Plan Development and Implementation” was attended by private sector participants from Guyana, Haiti, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.

Building Caribbean resources to ensure safe seafood and protect and grow fisheries exports

Caribbean countries have a living bank of marine resources from which they collectively cash out hundreds of millions of dollars a year to support emerging national economies by providing good jobs, food and foreign exchange, among other benefits.

However, in order to remain active and competitive in the global marketplace, countries have had to find ways to surmount the challenges posed by stringent international standards called sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, for food safety and for protection against diseases carried animals and plants.

Tools for Improving Food Safety Focus of Upcoming CDB Workshop in Guyana

The third ServSafe Food Safety Training and Certification Workshop facilitated by the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) Technical Cooperation Division, through its programme, the Caribbean Technological Consultancy Services Network, is slated to take place from September 15-18, 2015 in Guyana.

Food safety – Everyone’s responsibility

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, April 7, 2015:  “Food safety: from farm to plate, make food safe” is the theme of World Health Day 2015. On 7 April 2015, the Caribbean and the rest of the world will focus on the challenges and opportunities for food safety along the whole length of the food chain from production and transport, to preparation and consumption. 

New project will strengthen sanitary and phytosanitary regulations in the Caribbean

EU initiative to be implemented by IICA is designed to strengthen the legal framework governing the sanitary and phytosanitary standards applied in the region.

San Jose, Costa Rica, February 13, 2014 (IICA). With a budget of 11.7 million Euros, implementation is under way of a project aimed at raising the productivity of the agricultural and fisheries industries of 15 countries that belong to the Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM), as well as improving the access of those countries’ products to global markets. 

EU, IICA sign deal to strengthen Caribbean food standards

The European Union (EU) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) have signed an agreement which will see the regional bloc providing some 11.7 million euros to boost Caribbean food access to the EU markets.

The agreement was signed Wednesday night as the Caribbean Week of Agriculture activities continued in Georgetown, Guyana.

Head of the EU Delegation Guyana Robert Kopecky noted that they had signed another agreement with IICA earlier in the year but said Wednesday’s had a special importance for the region.

Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA)

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The Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA) contributes to enhanced agricultural health and food safety in the Caribbean Community.

Its primary objectives include regional and national support in establishing, managing and operating national agricultural health and food safety systems in accordance with the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS)  Agreement.

CAHFSA Launched In Suriname

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)   The agency upon which the Region will depend to strengthen agricultural health and food safety and ensure the highest standards for trade in agricultural products, was launched Thursday afternoon in Paramaribo, Suriname.

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