LOCAL Vendor and active member of the Solomon Islands Women in Business Association (SIWIBA) has acknowledged the organisers of the previous Food Safety and Hygiene Training Workshop in Honiara.
Harriet Suiga thanked the Solomon Islands Women in Business Association and Honiara City Council for corporately initiating the three days training on Food Safety and Hygiene.
“As a local woman vendor, am absolutely delighted to have completed my trainings. The training is not only an eye-opener for me but also for other woman participants of the training. Now that I have received my certificate – I promise that I will do my best to ensure the safety of food from preparation to consumption and more especially to serve my customers to the best of my acquired knowledge and skills,” she told Solomon Women.
The Solomon Women in Business Association (SIWIBA) in partnership with the Honiara City Council (HCC) Food Unit, have wrapped up a three days training on Food Safety and Hygiene.
The main objective of the workshop is to share and exchange constructive ideas with women vendors [those who specialised in sell cooked food] on how to prepare safe and hygienic foods for healthy human consumption within the food outlets in the City boundary of Honiara.
The training workshop was held at the SIWIBA conference room in Honiara.
Harriet said food safety and hygiene is both an important aspect in developing quality of food that could prevent food contamination and food-borne diseases.
“It is vital to ensure that the food or drinks that are prepared by vendors are free from harmful germs that could cause food poisoning an death to consumers; however, I believed that there are many local food vendors in Honiara that do not practise food safety and hygiene.
“The practical knowledge and skills of food safety and hygiene at home is a very important practise that all women should acquire in order to maintain a healthy family,” she added.
Mrs Suiga has normally engaged in selling of non-consumable products (Lavalava clothes) and consumable products (cooked food) at the Honiara Central Market. She current lives at Green Valley in East Honiara.
Honiara City is currently common with women food vendors that provide inexpensive and tasty food for public consumption. Clearly, consumption of food in the public is a new trend, the local food vendors from City and outskirt communities of Honiara normally sold food from their roadside and street pavement stalls.
