Food security and safety

The Management of Eggs Containing Fipronil Problem in Taiwan

Tsung Lee
INTRODUCTION After the EU fipronil scandal on 11th of August 2017, the Council of Agriculture (COA) started to collect eggs from all layer farms on 19th of August. 3% of 1451 farms are contaminated with fipronil. 1.57 million eggs are destroyed or used as fertilizers. Taiwan’s eggs market...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety
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Indonesia Undertakes the Food Policy Reform by Promoting Corporative Farmers

Wan-Yu Liu, Effendi Andoko
Introduction Indonesia is a large country in terms of population and geography and has the potential to become a food supplier for the world in the coming decades. Just recently, Indonesia’s Minister of Agriculture urged his government to promote the food program in the country to the World Food...
Country: Indonesia Topic: Food security and safety
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Safe, Sustainable, Transparent Tracing System for Agricultural Products

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
Source: Council of Agriculture (http://www.coa.gov.tw/ws.php?id=2503971) According to the “Agricultural Product and Verification Act”, the Council of Agriculture (COA) has been promoting the Traceable Agricultural Products (TAP) system since 2007. The tracing system was set to promote...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety
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Food Waste in Malaysia: Trends, Current Practices and Key Challenges

Siti Wahidah Abd Ghafar
INTRODUCTION Wasted food is a considerable component of the world’s food system challenges. Food waste can be described as all edible food materials produced for human consumption but left uneaten, either lost or discarded throughout the food supply chain, from farm to fork. It is organic...
Country: Malaysia Topic: Food security and safety
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Our Food Our Future: Revitalizing the Ecosystem in Malaysia*

Indu Bala Jaganath
Malaysia as a country has the right to define and control its food sovereignty but the country is open and vulnerable to the challenges of the environment, urbanization, changing demographics, and rising amounts of food waste. Thus, Malaysia desperately needs a food revolution movement where...
Country: Malaysia Topic: Food security and safety
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