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Dear OFA members and friends,

It's my great honor to introduce our new leadership team of the Oriental Food Association. Our new President is Mr. Daniel Chun of American Poly Sales Co., Inc. And our three VPs are Mr. Jason Lam of New Horizon Enterprises Ltd., Mr. Steve Shih of Queensway Food and Miss. Maria Leong of Lop Sing Trading.

The new leadership team will work on a two years plan to address the following three areas:

1. Expanding membership base

2. Partnership with other organizations

3. Provide value added services for OFA members

The board has pledged their full support for the new leadership to achieve a new milestore for the organization. Your support and participation is also very important.

 
 
You may have hundreds of reason not to eat Shark Fin, But must stop the Shark Fin Ban Legislation
(By Taylor Chow, March 4, 2011) On February 14, 2011 the Assembly Bill 376 was proposed to ban any person to possess, sell, offer for sale, trade, or distribute a shark fin in the state of California.... Please don't be fooled by its look. This ban is not only the matter of eating shark fins or not, but the consequence and what this legislation implies.
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FDA New Guidance for Reporting to the Reportable Food Electronic Portal
3/19/2010 FDA has issued new guidance entitled "Guidance for Industry: Submitting a Report for Multiple Facilities to the Reportable Food Electronic Portal as Established by the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007, " which can be found at http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/FoodSafetyPrograms/ucm205209.htm. This document provides guidance intended to assist those parties responsible for complying with the Reportable Food Registry requirements prescribed by the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (Pub. L.110-085). As required by section 1005(f) of this law, in September 2009, FDA issued guidance to industry about submitting reports of instances of reportable food through the electronic portal and providing notifications to other persons in the supply chain of such articles of food. This guidance document provides further guidance to industry on submitting a single reportable food report to FDA covering reportable food located at more than one of a company’s facilities. FDA has also updated its Questions & Answers For Industry Regarding the HVP Recalled by Basic Food Flavors, Inc. http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/FoodIndustry/ucm203201.htm Provided by: Lesley Maloney, Pharm.D. Senior Advisor, Industry and Business Relations Office of External Relations/Office of the Commissioner U.S. Food & Drug Administration Office: (301) 827-6252
 
Protecting U.S. Food Supply May Be Costly, Groups Say Protecting U.S. Food Supply May Be Costly, Gro
 Additional rules designed to improve food safety in the U.S. will add costs for businesses and may not be effective, food-industry groups said.

Scares involving the potentially deadly E. coli bacteria, salmonella, listeria and other threats have harmed consumer confidence, prompting industry support for some tougher measures, J. Patrick Boyle, the president of the American Meat Institute, said today at a congressional hearing. The added cost to defend the food supply may be burdensome, he said.

“Only industry can provide safe food,” and voluntary collaboration with government will do more to protect consumers than additional rules, Boyle told the House Agriculture Committee. Boyle’s group represents Tyson Foods Inc., the biggest U.S. meat processor, and other meatpackers.

Congress is increasing the food-safety budget to add inspection resources and considering more than a dozen proposals to combat food-borne illness. They include legislation, approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, to grant the Food and Drug Administration authority to order food recalls even when a company refuses to cooperate.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aAD65Z3FeyRo
 
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Dear OFA members and friends,

It's my great honor to introduce our new leadership team of the Oriental Food Association. Our new President is Mr. Daniel Chun of American Poly Sales Co., Inc. And our three VPs are Mr. Jason Lam of New Horizon Enterprises Ltd., Mr. Steve Shih of Queensway Food and Miss. Maria Leong of Lop Sing Trading.

The new leadership team will work on a two years plan to address the following three areas:

1. Expanding membership base

2. Partnership with other organizations

3. Provide value added services for OFA members

The board has pledged their full support for the new leadership to achieve a new milestore for the organization. Your support and participation is also very important.

 

Read more...
 
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Image China Files WTO Complaints Over US Poultry Ban

 Updated April 17, 2009 08:01 PM

GENEVA (Xinhua) - China filed complaints to the World Trade Organization (WTO) today about a US law effectively banning imports of Chinese poultry products, saying the law may violate WTO regulations.

Pursuant to Section 727 of the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009, which was already signed into law, the United States effectively prohibits the establishment or implementation of any measures that would allow poultry products to be imported from China, the Chinese WTO mission said.

China is concerned that Section 727 places restrictions on the import from China of poultry products that are inconsistent with the United States' WTO obligations, it added.

 
OFA Headlines
Protecting U.S. Food Supply May Be Costly, Groups Say Protecting U.S. Food Supply May Be Costly, Gro  Additional rules designed to improve food safety in the U.S. will add costs for businesses and may not be effective, food-industry groups said.

Scares involving the potentially deadly E. coli bacteria, salmonella, listeria and other threats have harmed consumer confidence, prompting industry support for some tougher measures, J. Patrick Boyle, the president of the American Meat Institute, said today at a congressional hearing. The added cost to defend the food supply may be burdensome, he said.

“Only industry can provide safe food,” and voluntary collaboration with government will do more to protect consumers than additional rules, Boyle told the House Agriculture Committee. Boyle’s group represents Tyson Foods Inc., the biggest U.S. meat processor, and other meatpackers.

Congress is increasing the food-safety budget to add inspection resources and considering more than a dozen proposals to combat food-borne illness. They include legislation, approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, to grant the Food and Drug Administration authority to order food recalls even when a company refuses to cooperate.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aAD65Z3FeyRo

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You may have hundreds of reason not to eat Shark Fin, But must stop the Shark Fin Ban Legislation (By Taylor Chow, March 4, 2011) On February 14, 2011 the Assembly Bill 376 was proposed to ban any person to possess, sell, offer for sale, trade, or distribute a shark fin in the state of California.... Please don't be fooled by its look. This ban is not only the matter of eating shark fins or not, but the consequence and what this legislation implies.
 
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FDA Issues Food Security Preventive Guidance for Importers

FDA has issued a guidance document for Importers to identify the kinds of preventive measures that can be taken to minimize the risk that food under their control will be subject to tampering or other malicious, criminal, or terrorist actions. Operators of food retail food stores and food service establishments are encouraged to review their current procedures and controls in light of the potential for tampering or other malicious, criminal, or terrorist actions and make appropriate improvements.

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 http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/01d_0583_gdl0002.pdf

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A new team has been elected to lead OFA in 2009.   Mr. John Lao of Ajinomoto,  is the President; Daniel Chun of American Poly Sales, Mr. Jason Lam of New Horizon and Mr. Steve Shih are the Vice Presidents,
 

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