US Food and Drug Administration officials address MPEDA meet
In the backdrop of the chemical and microbiological hazards, many new
challenges are cropping up nowadays with regard to food safety
concerns. In view of this, all precautions and preventive measures are
being taken by the seafood industry with the help of experts and
trainers having world class exposure.As part of this, the officials of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), US, imparted training to the representatives of the industry at a five-day ‘Train the Trainer’ programme organised jointly by the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) and the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
It was inaugurated at Hotel Leo here on Monday.
Speaking after inaugurating the programme, MPEDA joint director K.N. Vimal Kumar said that the training programmes were being conducted all over the country as part of the MPEDA’s efforts towards ensuring food safety.
He asserted that the MPEDA did pioneering work in the implementation of HACCP in Indian seafood industry way back in 1996 itself.
Action plan
As the development and promotional agency for export of marine products under the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India, the MPEDA has been implementing various action plans for the overall development of the seafood industry, particularly for the export sector.
The action plan includes capacity building in various fields of the authority’s activities.
Those who took part in the training programme were different stakeholders of the seafood industry in the west and east coasts.
They included the seafood processors, aquaculture extension officers, officials of regulatory authorities like MPEDA, EIA and so on.
Dr. Brett Koonse of US FDA, who is an aquaculture food safety expert, Dr. Thomas Rippen, a seafood technology specialist, and others spoke on the occasion.
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