The seventh training course under MI’s PROSAFE Project (Promoting Safe Food for Everyone) brings focus on postharvest handling practices in ensuring food safety. The one-week regional training on ‘Postharvest Safe Food Handling’, which opened on September 24, 2018, underscores the importance of maintaining safe food practices throughout the food supply chain. The training gathered 31 …

PROSAFE TRAINING EXPLORES SAFE FOOD PRACTICES IN POSTHARVEST HANDLING Read More »

Two localized trainings on integrated pest management and safe agrichemical use were conducted on September 20 in Tien Giang Province, Vietnam. Spearheaded by local IPM experts from the Southern Horticultural Research Institute, 30 durian farmers in Cai Lay District and 30 dragon fruit farmers from Cho Gao District participated in the short courses.    Mr. …

MI LOCAL TRAINERS LEAD IPM TRAINING IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM Read More »

“Now is the time to protect consumers, which includes all of us, from the risks of unsafe food. Success [in promoting food safety] ultimately requires cooperation from both the public and private sectors” This was the key message of Ms. Maria Theresa Medialdia, Director of Mekong Institute’s Agricultural Development and Commercialization Department, in her opening …

MI LAUNCHES PROSAFE PROJECT IN VIETNAM Read More »

Mekong Institute (MI), together with TWM consultant and the Institute of Standards of Cambodia (ISC), has successfully delivered the localized training on Food Safety Management Tools in Food Manufacturing at Bella Restaurant, Phnom Penh, Cambodia on September 18-19, 2018.   Twenty-one participants from agro-food processing enterprises attended the training course. The program aimed to enhance the …

MI PROSAFE ALUMNI HOST FOOD SAFETY TRAINING FOR SMES IN CAMBODIA Read More »