1. The document discusses ensuring safe food for local and global consumption in Myanmar. It analyzes Myanmar's current food safety needs and gaps, including the lack of national food standards and effective enforcement. 2. The document recommends developing infrastructure like food standards and laboratories, as well as networking through awareness campaigns, training, and international cooperation. 3. The Myanmar Transitional Platforms organization could help address food safety issues by facilitating information sharing, seminars, workshops and training between different stakeholders in Myanmar and overseas partners.

1. Safe Food for Local & Global Consumption
Presented by
Saint Yi Htet
B. E. (Chemical); Diploma in Food Technology (YTU)
Master in Public Administration (LKYSPP, NUS)
A Member of Myanmar Transitional Platforms

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ေးဘးမကင္းးေးသာ အစားေအသာက္ား၏ ဆးက္းမ္ား

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အစာအဆပ္သင္႔ၿခင္းး

4. း ြးးားးရး
ေးရာဂါ
ႀကကတ ုပ္္ေး
ကကး
ေးဘးမကင္းးေးသာ အစားေအသာက္ား
ပ္းသတ္ေး
ဆး
ဆးေး
ဆး
ဘကတ တးရတးယားပ္း
မုးတက္
ေးနလား

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International Food Safety Issues

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ေးဘးကင္းးတဲ႔
အစားေအသာက္အစးရ
ထတလ ု ပ္သူ
စားသံးးးသ
ၿပ္င္ေးေနသာ အားမ္ား
နည္းးဥေပ္ဒ
ေးစ္းကကက္
အသ
စားရတ္
?

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နည္းးပ္ညာ စတၿပ္ လပ္ႀကဖ႔

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1960s – PPD improved livelihood of farmers; introduced farm licensing
1970s – focused on R&D; upgraded Jurong Fishing Port; upgraded labs
1980s – agro tech parks; established integrated FS program
1990s – resulted in ample supply of primary food
to S’pore; facilitated trade
2000 and beyond – the AVA
How Singapore did it

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း းစ္ါးဆယ္

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ပ္ထမ ေးၿခလမ္းး

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Need Assessment
1. Myanmar National Food Standard? Still following CODEX?
2. There is a Food Safety Management System is it enforced effectively?
3. Public awareness and participation?
4. Is there proper guideline and reinforcement in food safety of individual
food processing, handling and retail selling?
5. Good Manufacturing Practices / Good Hygiene Practices?
6. Is there effective enforcement on type and dosage of pesticides?
7. How do we handle Peanut, corn, chilly powder, all kind of powder such as
rice, chick pea, herbs, etc. which are susceptible Aflatoxin which might be
the main cause of cancer in Myanmar?
8. Is use of preservatives and colors properly managed?
9. We know the gaps. How to close them?

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What we should do NOW
1. Referencing – Compilation of FSMS in ASEAN countries
2. Development of infrastructure
I. Myanmar National Food Standards
II. International standard food laboratory
III. Consumers’ organization(s)
IV. Code of conduct for food safety
3. Networking
I. Food Safety Awareness Campaigns
II. International Certification Bodies
III. INGOs supports for technical issues
IV. Universities in the ASEAN
4. Capacity Building
I. Consumers’ awareness campaign
II. Trainings for Food Manufacturers and Food Handlers

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How MTP could be part of it
Platforms
• Data and
Information
Sharing
• Seminars
• Workshops
• Training of
Trainers
Professional
Groups/Socie
ties
CSOs
Members
of
Parliament
Central/Loc
al Gov.
Dept
Myanm
ar
MTP
International
Organizations
Academic
Institutions
Professional
Societies
Overseas
Volunteers
Networks
Singapore

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