AFSI works to stimulate and support the capacity of EAC countries to adopt and implement international phytosanitary standards and improve trade and food security in the region. The activities supported by AFSI enhance the ability for EAC countries to work collectively as a region to harmonize standards, including procedures to better facilitate trade and prevent unnecessary delays and rejections at regional border crossings.
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West Africa: Food Safety Program (2020-2024)
The AFSI program works with ECOWAS to strengthen and refine the Network of Food Safety Actors (“Network”), established in 2015, and provides support to their coordination efforts within the region, including annual Network meetings and outreach to improve communication between Member States on food safety concerns. AFSI assists with coordination within the network and with other existing regional bodies, such as the West Africa Pesticide Regional Committee (WAPRC). The network of regulators involved in food safety is complex…
MRL Harmonization (2020-2024)
AFSI works across Africa to support harmonized MRLs among RECs and member states in line with international Codex standards. The project builds capacity of national and regional regulators to build robust pesticide regulatory frameworks and capacities and to set pesticide maximum residue limits (MRLs) in Africa that are science-based and backed by the WTO SPSContinue reading “MRL Harmonization (2020-2024)”
Report on Economic Impact of Missing/Low MRLs
In March 2021, the USITC – an independent, nonpartisan, factfinding agency – released the second of its two-volume report on the impact of non-harmonized policies on pesticide maximum residue levels (MRLs) on international agricultural trade.
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