At the workshop, Nguyen Nhu Tiep, Deputy Director of the Agro, Forestry and Fisheries Quality Management Department, said businesses should focus on product quality as well as hygiene and safety in producing and processing agricultural products so as to protect domestic consumers and gain access to global markets.
Development of the agricultural sector depends on penetrating global markets, where strict standards of hygiene are applied, Mr. Tiep said.
Participants called on the authorities to issue standards of food hygiene and safety, strengthen oversight of agricultural processing businesses, and help raise public awareness of food hygiene.
The MARD has established a strategy to ensure food hygiene and safety to 2015 and an orientation to 2020 according to which the ministry will focus on the solutions to existing problems concerning agro-forestry and fisheries quality management. Institutional and legal systems and state agencies to improve quality management will be established by 2015.
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