Production of healthy food for safe consumption

By Kent Jerico Ramil

PSTC-Ilocos Norte

Ilocos Norte is known for several food products sold even abroad. To fully ensure its safety, DOST Ilocos Norte conducted a training on the current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) with emphasis on food safety for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) on April 24-25, 2014, at the SALINGED Biodiversity Conservation Learning Center and Leisure Park, Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU), Batac City.

A total of 25 participants from five food firms from Ilocos Norte: Mabaleng Food Processors, Padre’s Meat Shop, Testman Enterprises, Winstar Farms and Petrina’s Pastries and Delicacies, joined the training.

The resource persons, Mr. Decth1180 P. Libunao and Mr. Hero D. Galamgam from DOST Regional Office 1 and Engr. Pablo Sandoval, a retired Dept. of Health personnel, shared with the participants the practices required from SMEs to enable them to conform with the guidelines recommended by a regulatory agency providing authorization and license to manufacture and sale of food products.

“It was a fruitful experience and a delight for the participants to have such speakers like them, I was expecting the seminar to be boring, but at the contrary I didn’t even notice that I am actually enjoying the lectures and the workshops,” participant Cynthia Agustin said.

Participants later said they were enlightened and their knowledge was widened on the preparation of healthy food for safer consumption and a marketable product that is not only nationally acclaimed delicious but also certified safe and with quality at its best.

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