Standards must improve: official
Small food and beverage makers are at risk of being uncertified when the ASEAN economic community takes shape in 2015, with the vast majority far from achieving international quality and safety standards, a government official says. Him Phanith, the deputy director of National Productivity Center, said just 30 of the estimated 500,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in Cambodia have internationally recognised food certification. Not having the standards in place will cancel out the opportunity to export and will make competition with imports tougher when trade barriers are loosened in 2015 during ASEAN integration, Phanith said. …
Chan Muyhong
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