STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP ON Food Production from Farm to Consumers using One Health and EcoHealth Network
VPHCAP in collaboration with the Excellent Center of Veterinary Public Health and the OIE Collaborating Centre for Capacity Building in Veterinary Services, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University has conducted the project to promote "Safe Food Production from Farm to Table through Thai and ASEAN Ways".
The Stakeholder Workshop on Food Production from Farm to Consumers using One Health and EcoHealth Network is held on 5th April 2018 at Kantary Hills Hotel in Chiang Mai.
In this workshop, we get support from the stakeholders who involved in slaughterhouses, food processing plants, and government sector to brainstorm and discuss about applicable regulations related to food production, certification systems, and trilingual educational media for workers in the processing line.
The workshop series: Accreditation System in Local Food Production will be held in late November in this year to follow up what we can do to improve the standards and quality of local food production.
After brainstorming about gaps of laws and regulations related to food production that most of stakeholders faced nowadays and the ideal standards for controlling food quality, we found that investment in infrastructure is the major obstacle for the stakeholders that they cannot find the way to compete with the local nonstandard facilities since the cost of production is reflected to the higher price of the products which is the main concern in consumers' perspectives. High turnover rate of immigrant workers results to uncontrollable quality of work and burden on training the new faces.
The last activity, we brainstormed to produce the media for the immigrant workers that will be developed in trilingual, mostly about personal hygiene, in order to improve understanding of the workers and possibly raise quality of food products.
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