03/04/2014 Uncategorized
Food Technology UPH conducted a public lecture concerning Food Safety on Friday, March 27 2014 by inviting Roy Sparringa as the Head of Medicine and Food Control Board (BPOM).
Food Technology UPH conducted a public lecture concerning Food Safety on Friday, March 27 2014 by inviting Roy Sparringa as the Head of Medicine and Food Control Board (BPOM).
 Roy Sparringa, Head of BPOM, as the speaker of the public lecture
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Food Technology UPH conducted a public lecture concerning Food Safety on Friday, March 27 2014 by inviting Roy Sparringa as the Head of Medicine and Food Control Board (BPOM). The public lecture took place in Building D 501 and students from Food Technology UPH batch 2012 and 2013 attending this event.
The event was organized because of the lack of awareness and safety of food in Indonesia. Roy stated that from the four elements in food security namely availability, accessibility, people?s welfare, acceptability and food safety, Indonesia focuses more on availability when the current most substantial element is food safety.
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Currently, in the midst of challenges such as globalization and unrestricted trading BPOM is trying to increase its performance. ?BPOM is the one responsible in supervising illegal food and medicine sold in social media that is currently getting more and more common. Since last year, approximately 5,6 billion cases were found, 20 sources searched, and 14 of them was put to trial. Other than that, from the supervision of snacks sold in school environment, only 16.000 elementary schools were available for intervention out of 180.000 existing elementary school?, explained Roy. BPOM kept reminding its performance in food supervision by strengthening their national and regional safety supervision network, empowering stakeholders to socialization, avocation, as well as maximizing partnership across sectors synergistically.
On the lass session, Prof. Dr. Manlian Ronald A. Simanjuntak, ST., MT., Dean of Faculty of Science and Technology UPH, stated that UPH students will be very encouraging in every event held by BPOM for the purpose of supervising food in Indonesia, one of which is to provide education in the form of public lecture. Other than that, in the event of the upcoming election, concerns for food supervision in Indonesia can be one of the responsibilities for future leader.(ca/pik)
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