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The agency was launched on 1 April 2019 by Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli. [1] Part of its mission will be to increase Singapore's home-grown food production capacity; the government has set a target to produce 30% of its food needs locally by 2030, up from 10% in 2019.
The department was restructured into a statutory board, the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority, on 1 April 2000. [3] The Food Control Division (formerly part of the Ministry of the Environment) was added to the AVA in July 2002. [4] It regulated food safety, safeguarded animal and plant health, and facilitated the agri-food and fisheries trade ...
On April 1, 2019, NEA's food related duties were absorbed by its successor Singapore Food Agency (SFA) which also absorbed the food related duties of two other statutory boards namely Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) and Health Sciences Authority (HSA). SFA is a statutory board under the Ministry of Sustainability and the ...
The Ministry oversees three statutory boards – the National Environment Agency (NEA), Public Utilities Board (PUB), and the Singapore Food Agency (SFA). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Statutory Boards
The Food Bank Singapore Ltd. was founded in 2012, [2] and is a registered Charity and Institution of a Public Character (IPC) in Singapore. [1] It operates as a foodbank that collects excess food from food suppliers and re-distributes them to organisations such as old folks' homes, family service centres and soup kitchens. [3]
Hawker center in Bugis village. A large part of Singaporean cuisine revolves around hawker centres, where hawker stalls were first set up around the mid-19th century, and were largely street food stalls selling a large variety of foods [9] These street vendors usually set up stalls by the side of the streets with pushcarts or bicycles and served cheap and fast foods to coolies, office workers ...
After leaving the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) in 2003, Lim served as Permanent Secretary for Education until 2007 before serving as Chairman of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry. After his retirement in 2019, Lim was appointed Chairman of the Singapore Food Agency.
The Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) was the authoritative body in charge of the oversight of agriculture in Singapore. [15] Agricultural imports are habitually reviewed for safety and health, [16] especially during crises such as bird flu outbreaks in other parts of the world. [17] The AVA was absorbed into the Singapore Food Agency (SFA).