“Unsafe food practices are quite common and can be easily pointed out in the local market places especially considering the way meat is handled and stored,” said Dr Sandra Vokaty, Veterinary Public Health Advisor to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).She was speaking during a workshop to strengthen the Caribbean countries’ capacity to regulate food safety.Dr Vokaty maintained that refrigeration is imperative to eliminating and preventing harmful bacteria from contaminating eatables such as meat and fish.She insisted that what is most important than enforcing food safety policies is prevention of unhealthy food practices.“Doing things properly all along so that you prevent food outbreak and people from getting sick… Laboratory inspection and policing are is very basis to ensure this.”Food safety,nfl jerseys china, she says, is essential to growth and sustenance of the tourism industry in Guyana and the Caribbean.“Food safety is a very important element to tourism,Mens Nike Free Run, because if tourists inquire and find that there has been an outbreak or something in a particular place or country they might not actually go there.”“The needs are different in different countries; countries that export food have different needs to countries that import everything…However, public health committees need to mobilise to ensure that goods and meat on shelves in the supermarkets and abattoir or expired or unsafe in any way.”The PAHO Health advisor is advocating that “there shouldn’t be higher standard for exported goods than that which is supplied to the local market places.”Local food safety expert,Cheap Jerseys USA, Dr Mark Pierre,Wholesale Jerseys China, pointed out the importance of workshops and training for development of the food safety network in Guyana.“We have developed at a certain level but we still have ground to cover. We have developed a quite efficient traceability study. We are doing a lot of work on the laws of Guyana but in the meantime, we have to continue training people as policing places a big part in terms of ensuring compliance.”Dr Pierre said that while there is local task force in place, “we need to double the manpower.”The three-day workshop got underway at the Grand Coastal Inn. The initiative was put on by Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) and Health Canada in association with the Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday.Participants included officers from food safety services units from seven Caribbean countries and Guyana.? They came from among the administrative staff from the Ministry of Health and Agriculture Ministry or parallel organisations.The workshop incorporated various aspects of food safety, technical training,NFL Jerseys Cheap, a discussion on microbiological food hazards and an effective food safety system.