Inception Report

Tran Quoc Dat Inspector/Auditor of Food Quality and Safety Quality and Laboratory Management Division

NATIONAL AGRO-FORESTRY-FISHERIES

QUALITY ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT

SOUTHERN REGION AUTHORITY

NAFIQAD

Jan/2016, Vietnam

MAIN CONTENTS

1. Organizational Information 2. Problems / Constrains and Countermeasures 3. Expectations and Future Plans

1. Organizational Information

NAFIQAD

DUTIES

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

NAFIQAD Including Region Authorities & Branches

LOCAL AUTHORITIES for Local Quality and Safety Management

(63 provinces)

■ Audition

Fishing vessels; Landing sites; Wholesale markets; Fish processing plants (intend for domestic consumption only )

■ Implement national programs

- Bivalve Mollusks Monitoring;

- Residue Monitoring in Aquaculture

- Monitoring and Traceability Program in Agriculture

- Post Harvest Control

Audition

■ Frozen/ Processing vessels; Fish processing plants and Cold storage (intend for export only)

■ Testing labs

■ Develop and construct

national regulation framework, docs, plans, standards

■ Plan for implementation of national programs

■ Final export product inspection and testing

■ Investigation of food safety warning

■ Knowledge testing (Workers)

■ Training courses (HACCP, ISO, GAP, …)

■ Knowledge testing (Workers)

■ Training courses

2. Problems / Constraints and Countermeasures

Problems / Constraints and Countermeasures

Problems / Constraints

Countermeasures

❑ Insufficient food safety regulation system

Keep on building comprehensively regulation system and policies of food safety, esp. national standards of food safety

Construct specific policies of food safety development support like financial and technical supports

To develop focused large-scale material areas linked with developing consumption market of safety products (difficult implementation because almost are small-scale farming)

To encourage to apply modern technologies and advanced quality and safety management linked with building trade name and developing food safety supply system (first trials at the central cities such as HCM, Hanoi)

Problems / Constraints and Countermeasures (Cont)

Problems / Constraints Countermeasures

❑ Insufficient budget investment of food safety management

Target budget investment of food safety management with nearly 1 USD/person/year (2020) Raise funds from international corporations and support to strengthen food safety management (JICA-Japan, EU, FAO)

Problems / Constraints and Countermeasures (Cont)

Problems / Constraints Countermeasures

❑ Lack of human resource (esp. local authorities: 12-15 pp per city/province; 3 pp per district; 1 pp per commune)

❑ Complex administrative procedure with Low application on IT in work

Increase working staff for local authorities Improve regulations and policies of working conditions and welfare to attract human resource working in food safety security Gradually simplify administrative procedures and apply IT into work handling.

Problems / Constraints and Countermeasures (Cont)

Problems / Constraints Countermeasures

❑ Ineffective food chain management of food safety and quality, especially in farming and production for domestic consumption

Keep on controlling food safety - Farms: Encouraging and supporting application (trial models) of VietGAP in agriculture but application is insignificant due to the same price and identification

- Retails: Audit and certify 50-70% of the total businesses (2020) (hard control, esp. SMBs)

Increase monitoring and testing frequency together with stricter punishment of violation cases in order to strictly control production and trading and use of unpermitted chemicals and substances in agriculture, preservation and processing (not enough because of lack of budget and human resource)

Problems / Constraints and Countermeasures (Cont)

Problems / Constraints Countermeasures

❑ Insufficient information, education and propaganda of food safety

knowledge

Keep on disseminating information, educating and propagandizing food safety knowledge to change people behavior and consciousness of food safety

Despite the increasing consciousness, changing behaviour is still hard because of profit and insufficient inspection and not strict punishment

Build and develop propaganda skills of food safety

Increase both quantity and quality of propaganda documents and messages

3. Expectations and Future Plans

Expectations

Subjects Expect to learn

❑ Outline of Safety Management System of Japanese Agricultural Products

Safety management system of food chain and related regulations, especially for farming and production for domestic consumption Administrative procedure and IT application in work handling

Expectations (Cont)

Subjects Expect to learn

❑ Traceability of Japanese Agricultural Products

Systematic traceability from “Farm” to “Table”, especially traceability of small scale farm

❑ GAP and its extension Agriculture cooperatives

GAP model and how GAP is widely applied How agriculture cooperatives are formed, operated and managed

Expectations (Cont)

Subjects Expect to learn

❑ Food safety management

systems in a wholesale

market and retailers

How to manage a

wholesale market and

retailers

❑ Formulation of a report on

findings from the training

and possible utilization in a

participant’s country

❑ Presentation and

discussion of the report

Find possible solutions for

problems through discussions

and reference of advanced

models of participant’s country

Future plans Learned contents Plan to do

❑ Management of safety

of agriculture products

Make suggestion to the

Director General of NAFIQAD

so as to review and make

better improvement of food

safety regulation

❑ Application of

advanced food

technology

Train distributers,

processors and farmers

through national training

programs of food quality and

safety

❑ Work dealing and

administrative

transparency

Apply as a trial model

Thank you for your attention