AMTA preaches hygiene
Street vendors are being taught about food safety and hygiene in order to protect public health.
NAMPA
The Agro-Marketing and Trade Agency (AMTA), in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), has educated street vendors in the north about the importance of food safety.
Twenty-one informal traders were trained at the Rundu Fresh Produce Business Hub and 19 at the Ongwediva Fresh Produce Business Hub earlier this month.
The training focused on topics such as food safety, quality and applicable laws; personal hygiene and cleaning and disinfection of food establishments.
AMTA’s manager for food safety and standards, Salomon Tsanigab, says the objective of the National Food Safety Policy is to create awareness of food safety and hygiene procedures to be adopted by consumers, food business operators and street vendors in order to ensure food safety and quality at all times.
The policy ensures that control standards are established and adhered to with regard to food production safety, food production hygiene, animal health and welfare, plant health and preventing the risk of contamination from external substances. The policy also lays down conditions for regulating appropriate labelling for food products.
The Agro-Marketing and Trade Agency (AMTA), in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), has educated street vendors in the north about the importance of food safety.
Twenty-one informal traders were trained at the Rundu Fresh Produce Business Hub and 19 at the Ongwediva Fresh Produce Business Hub earlier this month.
The training focused on topics such as food safety, quality and applicable laws; personal hygiene and cleaning and disinfection of food establishments.
AMTA’s manager for food safety and standards, Salomon Tsanigab, says the objective of the National Food Safety Policy is to create awareness of food safety and hygiene procedures to be adopted by consumers, food business operators and street vendors in order to ensure food safety and quality at all times.
The policy ensures that control standards are established and adhered to with regard to food production safety, food production hygiene, animal health and welfare, plant health and preventing the risk of contamination from external substances. The policy also lays down conditions for regulating appropriate labelling for food products.
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