Concerns about food safety in the Asia Pacific region have risen sharply, and spurred a high level, collective mandate from APEC Leaders to improve food safety standards and practices. In 2007, after the establishment of the APEC Food Safety Cooperation Forum (FSCF), APEC Leaders agreed on the need to develop a more robust approach to strengthening food safety standards and practices in the region, using scientific risk based approaches and without creating unnecessary impediments to trade. To this end, they called for increased capacity building to improve technical competence and understanding of food safety management among stakeholders in the supply chain, which include regulators, growers, packers, handlers, storage providers, processors, manufacturers, retailers and food service providers.
The Food Safety Cooperation Forum's Partnership Training Institute Network (FSCF PTIN) was created specifically to address the need to engage the food industry and academic food safety experts with the regulators, to strengthen capacity building in food safety.
Training Program on Food Safety Prerequisite Programs and HACCP Systems
Date: May and June 2012
Location: Beijing, China
Michigan State University (MSU), in partnership with the World Bank and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, Food Safety Cooperation Forum Partnership Training Institute Network (APEC/FSCF/PTIN) is conducting a training program on general food safety management and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) concepts in China in May and June 2012. This training program will utilize blended learning techniques and will include a one-month eLearning phase (May, 2012) followed by a six-day practical training phase to be conducted face-to-face in Beijing during the week of June 11-17, 2012.
Source：http://fscf-ptin.apec.org/