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  • Seminar on "Food safety in the processing and storage of export cashew"

    Aug 20th, 2016

    <p></p><p>Investment Promotion Center, Commerce and Tourism in collaboration with the Association of Binh Phuoc it 18-8 days held a seminar on "Food safety in the processing and export of cashew preserved" for organizations and individuals producer's business activities in the field of the province.Workshop with Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Ta Quang Huyen things, Chairman of things Binh Phuoc Nguyen Thi Kim Nga, Honorary Chairman Nguyen Van Binh Phuoc Hoi thing Thoa, Deputy Director, Centre for Investment Promotion, Trade and Tourism Truong Tan Nhat Linh. <br></p> <p>Binh Phuoc is 177 811 hectares which, in there with 43,600 hectares of forest land not included in the statistics, the average yield was 1.47 tons in 2015 / ha, the yield 195,085 tons. The province has 280 companies, enterprises and 400 business establishments and processing it. Scale operation of the processing units is quite diverse, but most of them are small and medium sized factories, production equipment investment is not sufficient to meet the conditions stipulated in the law on food safety Is not high. <br></p> <p>At the seminar, representatives of Provincial Police reported the execution of environmental protection and legal violations of environmental protection industry, processing of cashew nuts in Binh Phuoc province. Accordingly, the breach of businesses that primarily: gases generated from the boiler provides heat for drying cashew nuts; ordinary solid waste: cashew nut shell, chestnut mop stick lubricants, waste oil ...; waste water produced from the process of soaking nuts. In particular, some enterprises use the cashew nut shell to combustion boilers, the emission components with phenol can cause cancer, a very serious impact on people's health. <br></p> <p>Food safety issues, fumigation and the risks of transport and storage are also expert Pieter Tsasse Dijksterhuis, Ltd. and SGS Vietnam Co., Ltd. Vietnam Bureau Veritas communicated at the conference.The workshop has received the comments related to drug residues in cashew exports, as well as some business condition during storage, it is not good processing products leads to drug residues affecting production production and processing conditions. Enterprises also proposed that Binh Phuoc Hoi, Vietnam Cashew Association provides a list of drugs used in the sterilization, steam and cashews preserved for business use, assured production.<br></p><p></p>


    Source: Binh Phuoc
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