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[2] [3] 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. [4]
Inspection of primary produce and processed food at the points of entry into Singapore, Pre and post-slaughter inspections at local abattoirs, Inspection and accreditation of source farms, abattoirs, food-processing factories, both local and overseas, Monitoring and surveillance programmes for food-borne hazards in primary and processed food,
Agency overview; Formed: 1972; 53 years ago () Jurisdiction: Government of Singapore: Headquarters: 40 Scotts Road #24-00, Environment Building, Singapore 228231: Motto: Sustainable Singapore: Employees: 4,493 (2018) [1] Annual budget: S$2.75 billion (2019) [1] Ministers responsible
Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA), formed on 1 April 2000 to regulate food and veterinary issues. Dissolved into Singapore Food Agency (SFA) for food issues and National Parks Board (NParks) for veterinary issues on 1 April 2019
In 2017, Christina Teng became Singapore's first local guide dog instructor after undergoing training at Guide Dogs Victoria in Melbourne from 2018 to 2020 to get her Guide Dog Mobility Instructor certificate. [3] [9] [10] She also trained Eve, the first guide dog to be trained in Singapore. [3] In 2018, GDS planned to raise S$100,000 to train ...
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 ...
Singapore’s state food agency has approved 16 species of edible insects for sale and consumption in the country, according to a July 8 public circular addressed to food traders.
Agriculture in Singapore is a small industry, composing about 0.5% of the total GDP, within the city-state of Singapore. Singapore's reliance on imports for about 90% of its food underscores the paramount importance of food security. To address this, Singapore has set a goal to produce 30% of its nutritional needs locally by 2030. [1]