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implies absence of or acceptance and safe levels of contaminants, adulterants, naturally occurring toxins or any other substance that make food.
Food Safety
One of the major concerns in the Philippines
Food Safety
Major health problem in the country, and is a leading cause of diarrhea
Food borne illness
1._______ has been the number one cause of morbidity for the past 2.___ years and kills around 3.____
Filipino children every year (WHO).
- Diarrheal disease
- 20
- 10,000
Initiated by the Department of Health (DOH) since 2003 to coordinate and integrate activities of
several agencies.
National Food Safety Program
Four Components of the Food Safety Framework
- Agriculture and Fisheries
- The Food Industry
- Food Service (Sector)
- Household Food Consumption
Licensing, accreditation, inspection, investigation, monitoring, surveillance, research, and
management processes including training and disease management.
Regulatory and Control Mechanism
1.______ Embodied in Republic Act 2.______ (‘Organic Act of 2010’), promoting sustainable organic
agriculture.
• Aims to enrich soil fertility, increase productivity, reduce pollution, prevent resource depletion, and protect health.
- Green Policy under President Aquino
- 10068
1._______
2. _______- focal agency accountable for the growth of agricultural and fishery industries in the Philippines.
• Encourages public investments and provides support services, especially in rural areas.
• Ensures food security and safety from production to harvesting.
- Agriculture and Fisheries
- Department of Agriculture (DA)
Summarizes components, areas of concern, sub-component regulatory tools, and responsible
government agencies.
Philippine Food Safety Framework
Provides opportunities to improve food safety at the production level.
Organic Agriculture
- ________
Lead agency for food safety: 2.____ , previously known as Bureau of Food and Drug Administration (BFAD), ensures safety and purity of foods, drugs, and cosmetics (Republic Act 3.______, ‘Food and Drug Cosmetic Act’ of 4.____).
- The food industry
- FDA
- RA 3720
- 1963
Strengthens FDA’s regulatory capacity by establishing laboratory facilities and field
offices, upgrading equipment, augmenting human resources, and allowing income retention.
Republic Act 9711 (FDA Act of 2009)
It includes restaurants, caterers (sea and air vessels, seaport, and airport caterers), and street food vendor
Food service
- __________
Main Regulation: 2.____________ (Presidential Decree 856, 1975) implemented by ____ and ____ through inspections before issuing
business permits.
- Food Service Sector
- Code of Sanitation of the Philippines
DOH and LGU
Food contamination can occur at any stage of food production. Improperly prepared or mishandled foods at home cause high levels of foodborne diseases.
Household food consumption
Regulatory Agencies of the Department of Agriculture
1. Safety of meats
2. Safety of fish and aquatic products
3. Live animals
4. Food Plants
5. Rice and Maize
6. Pesticides
7. Sugar
8. Coconut
- National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS)
- Bureau of Fish and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)
- Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI)
- Bureau of Plant Industry
- National Food Authority (NFA)
- Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA)
- Sugar Regulatory Commission (SRC)
- Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA)
- Food, drugs, devices and cosmetics
- Organic food products
- Consumer act of the Philippines
- Food safety act of 2013
- Ecological solid waste management act
- RA 3720
- RA 10068
- RA 7394
- RA 10611
- RA 9003
- Food and drug administration act 2009
- Tobacco regulation act of 2003
- Price act 1991
- RA 9711
- RA 9211
- RA 7581
• Protects consumer interests and promotes general welfare.
• Establishes standards of conduct for business and industry.
• Implements measures to achieve protection against health hazards, deceptive sales practices, provision of information and education, rights and redress, and consumer involvement in policy formulation.
• Consumer Act of the Philippines (RA 7394, 1992)
Problems on Implementation of Food Safety (7)
- The food safety remains departmentalized
- Limited resources for food safety
- No single coherent national policy
- Street foods and food services
- Lacking strict control of preparation, storage and display practices
- Factors leading to malnutrition and food borne diseases
- Lack of risk analysis, risk management, …
Food safety policy (3)
- Protection of human health
- Fair practices in food trade
- Market access for local food
• ______ responsible for enforcing the Code of Sanitation, food standards developed by DA and DOH, and food safety regulation at the municipality level.
• Includes routine surveillance checks and more intensive inspections, verifications, audits, sampling, and testing.
DILG
Structured way in examining….
Risk analysis
Four components of _______
Hazard analysis
Critical limit
Monitoring/Inspection
Plan
- RA 3720
- RA 10068
- RA 7394
- RA 10611
- RA 9003
- Food, drugs, devices and cosmetics
- Organic food products
- Consumer act of the Philippines
- Food safety act of 2013
- Ecological solid waste management act
- RA 9711
- RA 9211
- RA 7581
- Food and drug administration act 2009
- Tobacco regulation act of 2003
- Price act 1991
