SINGAPORE—The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies have agreed to continue their efforts in strengthening food safety capacity building activities and improving food safety information sharing across the region.
Briefing on Monday about the outcome of the APEC Food Safety Cooperation Forum (FSCF), which was held in Singapore in the margins of the APEC Senior Officials Meeting on July 30, participants of the forum said that APEC economies have agreed to reaffirm its commitment to working together to build robust food safety systems so as to accelerate progress towards harmonization of food standards with international standards to improve public health and to facilitate trade.
In addressing the challenges facing the food safety system, the FSCF said in a statement that APEC economies will focus the attention on strengthening coordination of food safety capacity building activities, utilizing a broad range of government, industry and academic stakeholders.
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