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:: AGENCIES
INVOLVED IN QUALITY AND SAFETY OF FISHERY PRODUCTS :: |
Competent Authority |
Department of Fisheries
- Competent authority
- Monitor closely performance of exports and
problems
- Monitor and certify quality control programme
based on GMP and Good Principles of Food Hygiene
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Health Inspection |
Food and Drug Administration
- Actively monitor domestically marketed food
including fish.
- Plan to introduce rapid alert system so companies
facing problems in international markets can be helped to improve
hygiene
- The Bureau of General Communicable Diseases has a
surveillance and rapid response team who will perform outbreak
investigation and information exchange through a network.
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Standards Setting Agency
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National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and
Food Standard
- Develops standards for primary and processed
agric. Commodities as well as food products
- Current standards are based on international
standards like CODEX or the requirements of EU, USA and Japanese
markets.
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Traceability |
Department of Fisheries (DOF)
- Implementing manual system of traceability using
movement documents since 2000
- In 2005 EU project on shrimp traceability started
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CODEX |
Ministry of
Health
Secretariat of National Codex
Committee is SPS Enquiry Point for Food Safety, Codex Contact and
Reference Center for dealing with international food standards,
WTO including TBT, APEC, ASEAN etc.
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Risk
Assessment |
ACFS
- Developed Road Map for Food Safety
- Microbiological Risk Assessments are being
planned jointly with MOH and related departments
- Involved in warning system from the SPS/TBT
measures of trading partner
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