Mekong Institute (MI) opens today the third regional training program under the PROSAFE Project: Promoting Safe Food for Everyone. The two-week training course on “Assuring Food Safety through Pest and Agrichemical Management” is being held at the MI Residential Training Center this week until July 27, 2018. Funded by the New Zealand Aid Programme (NZAP), …

MI TRAINING UNDERSCORES PEST AND AGRICHEMICAL MANAGEMENT AS VITAL COMPONENT IN ENSURING FOOD SAFETY Read More »

In an effort to establish a network of skilled and capable safe food trainers in the region, Mekong Institute (MI) brings together key government, university, and private sector representatives for the Regional Training of Trainers on Food Safety Promotion. The one-week training program, which opened today, July 9, is part of the recently launched Food …

CLMV FOOD SAFETY CHAMPIONS ATTEND MI TRAINING OF TRAINERS Read More »

Mekong Institute (MI), with the support of the New Zealand Aid Programme (NZAP), launches today, July 2, the five-day Regional Training Program on Food Safety Management Tools for Food Manufacturing at the MI Residential Training Center. The program is the first in a series of food safety training programs organized under the PROSAFE Project: Promoting …

MI LAUNCHES PROSAFE FIRST TRAINING COURSE Read More »

Mekong Institute, supported by the New Zealand Aid Programme, is going to organize Communicating Food Safety: Regional Media Training Program on Food Safety Reporting in CLMV on August 6–10 at Mekong Institute in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Full scholarships will be provided to about 20 media/communication professionals of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam. At present, …

MI OPENS APPLICATIONS TO COMMUNICATING FOOD SAFETY TRAINING PROGRAM Read More »

Mekong Institute (MI) will be organizing a series of safe food courses this year as part of the New Zealand Aid Programme-funded Food Safety Project. These regional training programs comprise a major component of the five-year food safety project to be implemented in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV). The Project primarily seeks to …

MEKONG INSTITUTE OPENS APPLICATIONS TO 2018 SAFE FOOD COURSES Read More »

A localized training on Good Hygiene Practices (GHP), held last November 17, 2017 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, placed emphasis on proper handling, preparation and storage of food as fundamental to food safety.  Organized by Mekong Institute in partnership with the Food Safety Bureau, Department of Drug and Food (DFF) of the Cambodia Ministry of Health …

MI, MOH TRAINING EMPHASIZES FOOD HANDLING AS FUNDAMENTAL TO FOOD SAFETY Read More »

Ms. Maria Theresa Medialdia, Director of the Agricultural Development and Commercialization (ADC) Department and Dr. Jun Acedo, ADC Senior Program Specialist, joined the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Mekong Extension Learning Alliance (MELA) on October 30 – November 1, 2017 in Siem Reap, Cambodia.  Ms. Medialdia, representing Mekong Institute in MELA’s Coordinating Committee, served as …

MI ATTENDS MELA MEETING Read More »

Following the success of the first round of National Knowledge Sharing Forums on Food Safety in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV) in June this year, Mekong Institute delivered a second national food safety forum in Hanoi, Vietnam. Held on November 2, 2017, the Forum attracted the participation of 26 Vietnamese alumni who attended …

MI HOLDS SECOND NATIONAL FOOD SAFETY FORUM IN VIETNAM Read More »

Mekong Institute (MI), together with the Cambodia Import-Export Inspection and Fraud Repression Directorate General (CAMCONTROL), has successfully delivered a training-workshop on Food Safety Risk Analysis and Agri-food Inspection and Audit at the CAMCONTROL Headquarters, Phnom Penh, Cambodia on October 17, 2017.  Sixty-two food inspectors from 25 provincial and municipal CAMCONTROL branches participated in the training-workshop, …

MI, CAMCONTROL TRAIN LOCAL FOOD INSPECTORS Read More »

Mekong Institute’s (MI) efforts to promote food safety continue with the recently-concluded Symposium on Global Food Safety: Production, Health and Market. Co-sponsored with the University of Georgia (UGA) and Khon Kaen University (KKU), 142 participants from the academe, government agencies and private sector from more than ten countries from Africa, East Asia, South East Asia, …

MI HOSTS SYMPOSIUM ON GLOBAL FOOD SAFETY: PRODUCTION, HEALTH AND MARKET Read More »