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Strengthening Food Security through the Improvement of Food Safety for Exports using Gamma Irradiators and Electron Beams
Project Type
Technical Cooperation Project
TC Region
Asia and the Pacific
Project Code
INS5046Approved Date
1 January 2024
Status
Active
Objectives
To strengthen Indonesia's competitiveness in food exports by enhancing food safety and security, overcoming phytosanitary restrictions on trade in fresh products due to the risk of exporting viable plant pests by 2025, and ensuring food safety of frozen foods using irradiation as a non-thermal treatment to enable trade in seafood products by 2026, and to reach 800 tonnes per year of irradiated food products by 2025.