Farewell 2021 and thanks, COVID, for the rude awakening to strengthen food systems, secure supply chains, and reconstruct private/ public sector collaboration in 2022. Bring it on!!!
Doesn’t this look good? But observing CDC/FDA warnings and supply chain surveillance are prerequisites for a good, healthy meal. Happy Holidays from GFSF.
Come Jan.’22, China’s General Administration of Customs (GAC) will require advance registration for all foreign food manufacturers exporting food to China. Lots of remaining questions for us to monitor. And here’s an idea for FDA and GAC — supplier insurance covers inspection recall expenses.
Salmonella still not averted in US: https://www.propublica.org/article/salmonella-chicken-usda-food-safety?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature . The problem seems to reside in surveillance and regulatory authority. Nothing new there.
Developing a sustainable global food system that ensures access to a sufficient supply of nutritious, diverse and safe food for all, and simultaneously limits the impact on the environment, is one of the key challenges in the next few decades. Which means identifying technologies and sustainable agricultural practices that can adapt to climate change as well …
As welcome as the UN Food Safety System has been, one metric was glaringly left on the sidelines—food safety, the ultimate measure of the success of an equitable, international (and national) food system.
Tomorrow is Awareness of Food Loss and Waste Day. GFSF focuses on cost-effective technologies, like Chowberry app for Nigerian consumers in supermarkets. Every day for GFSF is connecting the dots between food loss and food security.
We welcome the upcoming initiative -Agricultural Innovation Mission for Climate- to be announced at the UN Food Systems Summit on Thursday. It spotlights the need for global ag innovation and new technology R&D for climate change mitigation & adaptation—farming for our future!
We commend APEC for hosting an outstanding workshop on WGS (whole genome sequencing). Excellent presentations and messaging on trade and regulatory capacity building. The science is there; the scientists are, too. The big hurdle remains international private/public sector collaboration.