Food security and safety

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Introduction of School Lunch Program in Japan and Korea

Yutsai Huang, Ph.D. Director, Food and Fertilizer Technology Center School lunches were extended to all elementary schools in Japan in 1952, and with the enactment of the school lunch law, to junior high schools in 1954. Today, 99% of elementary school students and 82% of junior high...

Country: Japan Topic: Food security and safety

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Amended Act Governing Food Sanitation Lifts Ban on Beef Containing Ractopamine

Hwang-Jaw Lee

Hwang-Jaw Lee Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association Updated food safety act allows for new drug residue levels, Legislature passed amendments to the Act Governing Food Sanitation on July 25, lifting the ban on beef containing the leanness-enhancing drug ractopamine and...

Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety

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Crop Health Management

Hwang-Jaw Lee

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association Food safety has become a major challenge for many countries in the past years. The safety issues exist in every process of the food chain, such as: from production, manufacturing,...

Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety

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Korea's BSE Control System and National Status in OIE

Jeong-bin Im

Dr. Jeongbin Im Professor Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development College of Agricultural and Life Science Seoul National University Seoul, Korea E-mail: jeongbin@snu.ac.kr The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) held a Central...

Country: Korea Topic: Food security and safety

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