By Gladys Pino/PNA
GENERAL TRIAS CITY, Cavite — Entrepreneurs in the food industry, including those thinking about investing in this sector, may take part in a free orientation on food safety at the General Services Office (GSO) building at the 2nd floor of the city government center on November 27.
This whole day orientation on “Food Safety and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)” is a project of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), in partnership with City Mayor Antonio A. Ferrer, 6th District Congressman Luis Ferrer IV, Vice Mayor Morit Sison, and the Sangguniang Panglungsod.
Liza Burgos, business counselor of the DTI Negosyo Center here, told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) on Tuesday that the orientation seeks to instill food safety awareness among current and prospective food entrepreneurs, for the benefit of their customers.
The seminar will also equip the business owners early on, in case they wish to expand, and later grow big through exportation “as the HACCP certification/seal is also being looked into in various exportation (requirements),” Burgos added.
Science-based and systematic, HACCP is a management system where food safety is addressed through the analysis and control of biological, chemical, and physical hazards from raw material production, procurement and handling, to manufacturing, distribution and consumption of the finished product, she explained.
The seminar will be managed by food safety specialist and professor at the De La Salle University Dasmariñas, Mario Luis Filart Jamoralin.
The morning topic will revolve around Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures while the afternoon topic will be on hazard analysis and critical control points, she added.
