DA-PCC’s conduit co-ops practice food safety standards Dec 2021 Bubalus food safety standards, coops By Ma. Wyne Pagaduan On the bases of consumer welfare and protection, Republic Act No. 10611, “An Act to Strengthen the Food Safety Regulatory System in the Country to Protect Consumer Health and Facilitate Market Ac-cess of Local Foods and Food Products, and for Other Purposes” otherwise known as the “Food Safety Act of 2013”, serves as the Philippine framework for implementing the farm to fork Food Safety Regu-latory System. Notice: Undefined variable: imgDesc in C:\laragon\www\post.php on line 114 Anchored on this purpose is the OneDA strategy on food safety and regulations, which focuses on funding activities to ensure that traceability systems and control measures against plant and animal epidemics are in place and secured. On the DA-PCC’s end, this strategy puts focus on upscaling buffalo-based products through the development of the Philippine National Standards for buffalo milk and meat products in partnership with the Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Standards (BAFS), in close coordination with the National Dairy Authority (NDA) and Bureau of Animal industry (BAI), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the certification of buffalo milk and meat. Along this line, the DA-PCC aggressively embarked on initiatives to fulfill the purpose through massive information dissemination and capability building for dairy buffalo farmers’ cooperatives and associations and has identified focal persons on food safety and regulatory compliance to safeguard consumers. Among other interventions, the DA-PCC has recently established food safety control management measures for regular disease monitoring and surveillance of zoonotic and important animal diseases (e.g. tuberculosis, brucellosis, leptospirosis, mastitis, surra), prepared a scalable and efficient risk management plan as a dairy safety regulation, and assisted the dairy cooperatives to secure a License to Operate (LTO) from NDA. Said LTO would authorize the cooperatives or the associations to undertake or carry out business activities on food manufacturing and distribution. Securing the LTO, however, proved to be challenging for the cooperatives and the matter has unfavorably affected their operational flexibility, hindering them to fully participate in the national milk feeding program. The DA-PCC, through the Coconut-Carabao Development Project (CCDP) in partnership with the DA-Philippine Coconut Authority (DA-PCA), proactively capacitates them to improve their knowhow on the legal and technical requirements of securing accreditation. In the same way, safety officers, dairy personnel, and compliance officers are consistently provided with proper training to ensure that farmers are ably assisted. They are also regularly monitored to ensure that the risk management plan is implemented and food safety regulations on safe food production and proper postharvest handling are strictly adhered to. The CCDP was funded by the Office of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Food and Agrarian Reform with the initiative of its chairperson Sen. Cynthia Villar.
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