The Philippine Food Safety System and Issues

Presented by :

CHRISTMASITA OBLEPIASFDRO III, BFAD

The Philippine Food safety System is

Lead by two agencies namely:

BFAD for DOH –Processed Food

Dept. of Agriculture and its attached agenciesFor animal & animal health, plant & plant health, slaughterhouse, sugar, grains, milk.

Quality and safety of food - efforts of everyone involved in the complex chain of agriculture production, processing, transport, food production and consumption.

The assurance of food safety is a shared responsibility from farm to plate.

Other agencies involved: DOST, Academe, TWG

Philippine Food Safety Framework initiated by the DOH Food Safety Committee.

Comprehensive, coordinated, forward-looking framework that would strengthen the systems that ensure the safety of the country’'s food supply.

Philippine Food Safety Framework

Farm Transporter

MarketsWholesalersDistributors

Trader

ProcessorsManufacturers

Food EstablishmentsAir and Sea Ports

Retailers Consumers

Food Chain

DOH

DA

Farm: Agriculture and Fisheries. Department of Agriculture and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)fisheries and aquatic resources protection and safety, Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI), for plant and plant health; Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA), for safe and proper use of pesticides; and the Bureau of Animal Industry(BAI), for animals and animal health

FOOD INDUSTRY

Slaughterhouse - National Meat Inspection Service under the Department of Agriculture (DA)Food Processing - BFAD Food Importation BFAD for processed food Raw fish, meat and poultry DA.

FOOD SERVICESRestaurants, and Institutional Food Services - Schools, Hospitals, Caterers, Carinderias, StreetfoodsVendors -Local government regulators/sanitary inspectors.Policies - National Center for Disease Prevention and Contro l-Environmental Health and Occupational Office Ports and Seaports Caterers - Bureau of Quarantine and International Health Service of the Department of Health, Household Food Consumption: Consumers have the responsibility in proper handling and storage of food at home.

Water Safety. National standards for drinking water and criteria for surface waters are set by the Local Water Utilities. Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases National Epidemiology Center Research Research Institute of Tropical Medicine (RITM) the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD). Food Development Center under the National Food Authority of the Department of Agriculture is another government agency that undertakes research work on food usually serving the industry

BFAD’s jurisdiction Food processing sector

Regulatory tool1. cGMP is mandatory to food industries.2. Hazard Analysis and Critical

Control Point (HACCP) .The seafood industry has adopted this system and is operationalized by a MOA between BFAR-DA and BFAD-DOH.

FOOD SAFETY ISSUES IN THE PHILIPPINES

1. Pesticides

2. Heavy Metals (Lead)

3. Aflatoxin

4. Histamines

5. Allergy

6. Red Tide

7. Physical Contamination in Processed Food

8. Microbiological Contamination

Food Industry

Food Scientist Government Regulators

Consumers

SAFE FOOD FOR ALL

PHILIPPINE FOOD SAFETY FRAMEWORK

FOOD CONSUMPTION DATA

Usual diet of Filipino households is rice-fish-vegetable.Intake of Cereals (364g) constitutes 41.1 % of the total food consumed per capita per day (886g).Intake of fish and products is 104g per capita per day, while it is 81g for meat and poultry and their products.Intake of vegetables is 111g per capita per day. Intake of fruits amounts to 77g per capita per day.Consumed in small amounts are milk and milk products (49g), starchy roots and tubers (19g), sugars (24g), fats and oils (18g) and dried bean.

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well”.

--Virginia Woolf

Thank you and may we have a fruitful seminar!