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A National Agriculture Health and Food Safety Policy is expected to benefit Dominica\u2019s trade industry.<\/p>\nA National Agriculture Health and Food Safety Policy is expected to benefit Dominica\u2019s trade industry.<\/p>\n
Trade, Agriculture and Health officials met for two days in Dominica to seek ways to develop a policy on food safety.<\/p>\n
Trade official Welsworth Barthelme said Dominica can improve on the global trade market, once its food standards are of a high quality.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur farmers and production sector has to be able to meet the standards of the Europeans and it is the ministry\u2019s duty to put the policy platform in place that enables our farmers, our production sector to meet the demands and the standards that the international market is looking at,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said the ministry of trade has already put in place a Consumer Protection Bill is currently before the ministry of legal affairs for reviewing and subsequent implementation.<\/p>\n
The just concluded consultation also outlined the challenges and gaps faced by stakeholders in the other food safety system, identify strategies for strengthening the country\u2019s food safety system and allocate strategic segments to stakeholders for development on the way forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A National Agriculture Health and Food Safety Policy is expected to benefit Dominica\u2019s trade industry. Trade, Agriculture and Health officials met for two days in Dominica to seek ways to develop a policy on food safety. Trade official Welsworth Barthelme…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":49939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-development"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n