Mekong Institute’s PROSAFE Project continues the delivery of training courses to bolster safe food consciousness in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV). Today, August 20, the regional training program on Mainstreaming Food Safety Risk Analysis opened at the MI Residential Training Center with 28 participants in attendance from relevant government agencies, academic and research …

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Mekong Institute served as co-organizer of the recently-concluded 4th AFSA International Conference on Food Safety and Food Security (AFSA 2018), hosted by the Asia Food Safety and Security Association together with the Royal University of Agriculture-Cambodia (RUA). The conference, held on August 10-12, 2018 at Siem Reap, Cambodia, featured 13 keynote presentations on the challenges, …

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The regional training on ‘Communicating Food Safety’ commenced today, August 6, at the MI Residential Training Center in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Twenty-eight science correspondents and media professionals from the four partner countries—Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam—are participating in this safe food course.   In an effort to raise media awareness and interest in covering food …

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As Mekong Institute’s PROSAFE Project goes full blast with new training courses, the first in a series of Country Inception Workshops was held yesterday, July 24, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The workshop gathered 27 participants from four key ministries (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries [MAFF], Ministry of Industry and Handicraft [MIH], Ministry of Commerce …

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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), …

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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 …

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