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Jamaica gets ready for US Food Safety Modernisation Act

Published:Wednesday | June 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce Reginald Budhan (right) makes a point about a Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation (JANAAC) banner to (from left) Dr Michael Supersaud of the Caribbean Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality; Noel Osbourne, executive director, Bureau of Standards Jamaica; Marguerite Domville and CEO of JANAAC, Simon Roberts, chairman of JANAAC Accreditation Council, at the Stakeholders' Breakfast hosted by JANAAC at the Terra Nova hotel in St Andrew on Thursday, June 9, in commemoration of World Accreditation Day. Budhan said at the event that the Jamaican Government, through JANAAC, will be training food processors on the new US Food Safety Modernisation Act, which, as of 2012, will make it compulsory for all processed foods be tested by an accredited lab before entering the United States market. - CONTRIBUTED

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce Reginald Budhan (right) makes a point about a Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation (JANAAC) banner to (from left) Dr Michael Supersaud of the Caribbean Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality; Noel Osbourne, executive director, Bureau of Standards Jamaica; Marguerite Domville and CEO of JANAAC, Simon Roberts, chairman of JANAAC Accreditation Council, at the Stakeholders' Breakfast hosted by JANAAC at the Terra Nova hotel in St Andrew on Thursday, June 9, in commemoration of World Accreditation Day. Budhan said at the event that the Jamaican Government, through JANAAC, will be training food processors on the new US Food Safety Modernisation Act, which, as of 2012, will make it compulsory for all processed foods be tested by an accredited lab before entering the United States market. - CONTRIBUTED