 Good. All right. Excellent. So it's 2 p.m. in the afternoon in Thailand. Good afternoon in our country, but then it must be good morning and then good evening and then greetings everybody. Thank you so much for joining our webinar today. Our webinar is entitled the FAO webinar on strengthening country capacity to control and monitor residues for veterinary drugs and food. And then I sincerely like to welcome everybody now that 184 attendees on behalf of FAO and I am very pleased to see this so many people's interest in this webinar because that we have been doing this work on the antimicrobial resistance, AMR related work, but then the work on the residue issues is quite unique and then we are very happy to have a focus on the residues issues that today. And particularly that the interest is quite high in the region of Asia and Pacific where our colleagues that you can see on the screen work and then the Asian Pacific colleagues are especially interested in looking into the management and control issues of this residue of veterinary drugs and food. However, that it's not this webinar is not about only about Asia and Pacific because we are welcoming lots of countries, participants all over the world and then we can see that so many people from so many different continents and then I am very excited to see this diversity and then also that hopefully that we will have a very fruitful session to share the information and then also the insights from everywhere in the world. Now that the very small housekeeping announcement I would like to make that first of all that you have seen this recording sign on the left upper corner of your screen so we would like to have your consensus of this having this webinar sessions recorded and thank you very much and then if you're okay that you can just click on the continue to have this recording continue. Also that you have seen this chat box to talk about the various things in the chat box we can communicate each other but then it would be extremely difficult to keep track of all the comments for organizers so we have prepared and arranged this Q&A box you can see in the menu screen that if you click on the Q&A screen that you will see the opportunity to ask the questions and then in this box that I would like to ask you to specify and then also the address the person's name to that where you want to ask the questions too so that we will be able to effectively manage that answering and responding to the questions and during the webinar sessions we will keep this question and answer box open so that attendees can freely write their questions and as you can see on the panelist you can use the first name to really identify the person's task questions the first speaker would be Mary Joy and then next one is Stefan and then third one is Pin and then also Panada and then I would be also speaking Masami so you can use our first name to address the questions. Also that I would like to tell you that the few acronyms that we will be extensively using during the webinar first one is very obvious we will be calling our organization FAO a lot so this is the FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and then also that we will be using the word AMR which is antimicrobial resistance and then also we will be using the words MRL which is the maximum residue limits and then also that we will be this is not very common acronyms but then we will probably use is that RBDF residues of veterinary drugs in food we are using these acronyms because it's such a long phrase and the Codex Committee uses this acronym to mean that the veterinary drug residues in food so RBDF might be used. Two more acronyms that we might be using is one is ATLAS so full name of the ATLAS is the FAO laboratory assessment tool for laboratory and MR surveillance system ATLAS assessment tool for laboratory and MR surveillance so that is ATLAS ATLAS another acronym that we might be using a lot is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations 10 countries that form this ASEAN allies and then our panelists from Singapore and Thailand both are ASEAN members so those are the main acronyms that we'll be using during the webinar so having said that I would like to just go ahead and start the webinar so thank you for joining once again and we have now the 245 participants a very exciting time I will give the floor first of all to explain the background of this project and initiative and then so that you understand where this initiative stands in terms of the bigger picture of FAO work on MR so Dr. Mary Joy Ongo-Chilly that your your speech I take the floor. Thank you very much Masami and good afternoon to everyone good morning to others or probably good evening to the rest so good I'm Mary Jargar Nasilio I coordinate the FAO project in in FAO Regional Office for Asia in the Pacific so I'll be briefly just talking about the assessment of country capacities on antimicrobial or situ detection the background and where it came from so to provide an overview of the work of FAO in the region for particularly for food and agriculture in Asia on AMR we have several areas of work so the residue component is only one of them we work on campaigning for awareness developing key communication materials education and training and we also implement a lot of advocacy as well as continued advocacy toward antimicrobial awareness week which has been started since 2016 the residues work falls under the umbrella of evidence work where we develop tools and methodologies systematic assessment capacity building and regional networks for support and doing pilot initiatives so this is also true for antimicrobial resistance surveillance but now the first initiative on residues is just started this year for governance we also build the network of advisory groups so technical advisory group because AMR is relatively new this advisory group provides support to countries and also technical working groups for specific technical issues that arise in the region aside from this we also have some work with the partners and countries on regional coordination and of course we forge a strong partnership with our colleagues from OIE World Organization for Animal Health and the World Health Organization WHO we call ourselves um tripartite together with the UNEP just to brief as a backstory on the tool development process this actually initiated when there was a request from a receipt from a country where they wanted to have an assessment or they wanted to do something on residues we invited the URF quality control for livestock product then that that time this is the key person that the key institute as a CN reference for food laboratory and we from this initial work in 2018 and I think Dr. Naraya is here and also gift they were the ones who we worked with in assessing the capacities of on residues particularly for lao from this we built a residual monitoring framework and from the discussion the recommendation was for us to have a tool for assessment so we can replicate this work for the other countries so together with Thailand and Singapore we tried to have we forged partnership with Thailand as as ASEAN food reference laboratory and also expertise for the expertise in livestock residues for Singapore we they are the ASEAN AMR lead for aquaculture and also aquaculture residues and also for atlas they are they have an atlas they are also atlas assessor so we built linkages and then to move forward we formed a technical working group that developed and assessed we developed the tools for assessing residue capacities and this year as was mentioned by Masami we piloted this in Singapore and Thailand now today we are here for the next steps which is to continue with consulting with the countries and to further refine the existing framework so this is just a brief overview of the work that has been done as a background for this discussion that we are having this afternoon thank you and over to you Masami. Thank you very much Mary Joy everybody that was Mary Joy if you have questions to the FAO project please address to Mary Joy. The second panelist is Dr. Stefan Wolch our international consultant for FAO and he will be talking about the introduction of the FAO new tool assessment tool on monitoring of the residue of veterinary drugs in food and the participants here free to write your questions in the Q&A section of this zoom function and then the written questions will be answered in the written way that the and then also we will pick up some questions later on but then just to tell you that in case that we have so many questions and then because of the time limitation if we cannot answer the questions during the session we'll be responding to your questions in the final report of this webinar so please feel free to ask your questions in the Q&A box so now that I'm giving the floor to Stefan. Thank you Masami hello everybody good morning good afternoon I'm talking about the outlines of the tool we developed that we want to present today so can please next slide um I think you're all aware that AMR is a recognized global public environmental health threat so FAO has developed various guidelines on AMR and still one of the most potential threats is remains the potential misuse or overuse of veterinary drugs this is strongly linked to AMR so countries in Asia and the pacific have a strong need for appropriate capacities to detect and monitor veterinary drug and antimicrobial residues what was the idea of the tool we wanted to empower to enable the systematic assessment of national laboratories for monitoring veterinary drug residues we wanted to be non-prescriptive by offering approaches and method methodology we wanted to give it to be tailored to fit the national context so we customized we made some contents customizable and gave options to tailor it to achieve the specific need we use the step-by-step guidance or we will use a step-by-step guidance um at a later stage we will provide a guide towards the step-wise and progressive improvement of countries relevant capacities and we have a cross link to ATLAS which is quite important to us as a synergy to the framework of the FAO assessment tool for laboratory and AMR surveillance systems can next slide please why do you need the tool or why is the tool actually needed by so many countries um it you know basically you have three questions in your minds one is about capabilities what are the capabilities of your country in VMR monitoring or for self-assessment how can we assess these capabilities in a way that you know gives um answers that is transparent and that helps um to find a way for a step-wise uh improvement and for our laboratories or for your laboratories how good are your laboratories on different levels especially national reference laboratories or regional laboratories the structure we structured the tool in six sections first section is introduction second is competent authorities then there's residue monitoring questions about governance and regulation then we talk about technical capacities then we ask questions about reporting communication and networks and at the end safety considerations for the labs here are some examples from the um governments section competent authorities as you can see um the questions are are we have a category category and there's always a subcategory and we use the color code for easy navigation and uh use of the tool so yeah you can see also the type of question we are asking about the residue monitoring in the second example can please next slides and here are some examples from the laboratories sections we believe it's highly relevant for all levels of laboratories as you can see you can give answers with a checkbox on the one hand on the other hand there will be free text where you have the possibility to um yeah make your own comments and um yeah as you can see two basic questions from the human resource section about the workforce laboratory stuff educational background or about what machinery do you have in as a physical resource in your laboratory and you can see it's it's um you can different differentiate between uh all kinds of levels of laboratories that you can find can next slide please here's a example from the sampling section as you can see as you all probably know sampling is quite important when you would talk about um RVDF and um these are sections that can directly be influenced by each lab so whatever your financial situation or your funding situation is you you might find some sections in the in the tool that are hard to be influenced by a lab if a laboratory is using the tool for self-assessment but other sections you can really do um already can you can directly influence your result and can also use to benchmark between different laboratory levels and you can use answers using free text next slide please we also have um a section for reporting communication and networks um and um as last sections we have included safety considerations and we believe that a step wise improvement for every lab can start here what are the next steps what is the roadmap well we first of all we want to consider all the results inputs and feedback from the pilot assessment countries um then on the next level we will issue a call for interest in piloting in several other countries just to gain more data to gain more experience with the tool to get more input we will develop systematic criteria for each question and of course we will um we also want to have um evaluation criteria for questions with scalable options and well along the road and finally we want to develop technical guidance document to use the assessment tool so thank you for your attention and i'm looking forward to your questions and um yeah thank you thank you very much Stefan so uh everyone so it was uh Stefan uh if you have any specific questions about the tool that FAO is uh working on together with this uh this excellent expert on the uh the residue issues uh please address uh him to ask the question so thank you very much now that um um basically that what FAO did was that using this uh first draft of this um uh tool that the laboratory assessment tool for the residue analysis uh well i mean i should call it first draft because we have been reviewing and revising and then modifying and everything but then probably i would say like 10th draft uh was uh finally uh shaping something and then we have asked two countries who are very keen to try using this tool to actually assess their capacity in the country so those two countries were uh Singapore and Thailand so as you may know that the Singapore uh is a very very tiny country at the edge of the Malay Peninsula but then Singapore is such a significantly important i mean the economy uh in the Aegean region and of course ASEAN member countries and then Singapore does import lots of food items so basically that this assessment is quite interesting in the Singapore context because Singapore tests the imported food items and then to see the residue levels on the imported food uh on the other hand that Thailand is one of those very uh popular countries that wear that lots of food is produced in the country and then it will be exported to many many different countries in the region and also outside of the region and then also a significant amount of the domestic consumption as well so i think that the two totally different country context will show uh the usefulness of the tool so first person that i would like to ask to present the experience is Dr Pinchin from the Singapore Food Agency so Pinchin the floor is yours please explain that what you have found using the assessment tool in the Singapore context thank you okay um good afternoon regards from Singapore thanks Masami for the very well organized introductions about the projects and also introduction about Singapore yeah so is my uh really a great pleasure to be invited to share Singapore's experiences when we apply this FAO tool to assess the Singapore's national residue system and also to see the initiatives under the system and what to help us to identify the gaps and plan for the for the next so next slide please yeah okay so the outline of my talk today i will briefly just touch base a little bit about the pilot project how Singapore was involved and then followed by a brief introduction about my organization Singapore Food Agency then introduced about Singapore's very unique food safety system and followed by the national strategic action plan on the antimicrobial resistance then i will may spend a little bit longer time on the how we use the tool to conduct the assessment exercise with the the corporate authorities and those are major stakeholders then i will share the experiences some pleasant some painful and some taking a long time to get the results then the last part probably will be the recommendations for the next steps yeah so about the pilot project just like just now the Mary Joy and Masami already introduced it is a long journey starting from 2018 then we work behind hardworking groups driven by Masami and the teams have the planning stages stages then so many versions of the tools and draft then later we come out the first draft the working groups work on a and try to refine it and then we move to the second stage of the piloting stage so Singapore and Thailand were invited to work together because we are very uh two different let's say countries Singapore importing well Thailand producing so we'll see on the two different contexts how can we apply the tool to help the country to to check through the overall system to help us to improve the system and also what the landing points we can get by piloting these tools and now we are at this stage the webinar we are sharing our experiences next slide please yeah about my organization uh Singapore Food Agency actually we are a new agency probably you may have heard about AVA AgriFood and Veterinary Authorities of Singapore before but now actually Singapore has consolidated all the food related resources and capabilities and established this new government agency Singapore Food Agency that's why the birthday of the our new organization is the 1st of April 2019 but this this new organization will continue whatever AVA previously done and also get new let's say resources and from let's say previous environmental agencies and also the house science authorities together so that we are strengthened in terms of resources and capabilities the overall mission or the vision of the organization is to say food for all is the vision the mission is to ensure and secure a supply of safe food for Singapore next please yeah next yes so just okay a brief overview about Singapore and why we are so unique and different from others if you check the world map we are just a small dot on the map so we have we have a very limited natural resources that means with very little farming land Singapore imports over 90 percent of the food we eat for the in the country so we heavily rely on the food supply from other countries import import food from others and this is the reason we are facing a very unique challenges to ensure a steady supply of safe food for the country then from the slides you probably can see actually we are importing the major food item from all over the world for example from Thailand you can see we import sugar rice milk vegetables and yeah different type of food then this the one overall right about Singapore status will define how the Singapore food safety system to focus on and how do we do the residue monitoring in such a small city states next slides yeah so Singapore's very unique food safety system actually is underpinned by three principal considerations the first one is from the farm to fox system approach so this approach covers almost every angle of the overall food supply chain from the very beginning from the farm level can be overseas supply the farm and establishments to who handle those importing items or the consignments the importers then focusing the local producer although we have very limited let's say agriculture sectors but we still have a system in place to manage and regulate them then in between once we have the raw food materials how do they process manufacture it and also even the food animals how do they slaughter those the facilities and establishments are also covered and monitored by this system then the distributors and warehouse management also very critical to ensure the food safety the retailer parts that means the consumer how do they get the food and bring them into their uh that's their table also quite important how to ensure the safety on these two items and expects then another principal consideration is about the science so it should be a science-based reassessment and many management in place to ensure the food safety and we also strongly believe food safety is not just the government's job it is a joint responsibility that's why we're promoting the drug the joint responsibility the government need to work together with the industry and also engage the consumer so we hold hands in hands be able to really ensure a safe food for all for the nation next slide please yeah then now we are talking about we have already briefly introduced about the organization about the overall system the food safety system then we use this tool to help us to overall check through our system to help us to do the gap analysis to identify which part we can do we are already done not bad pretty well or which part we can do better so because of the unique let's say states of Singapore the focus of Singapore's national residue monitoring program is different from other countries because we are almost a net importer and the local production is only for domestic consumptions and we produce almost just three major let's say the food categories the leafy vegetables fish and shell eggs for the local consumptions by the local farms all the other major food items actually are from import and this is a reason right then the focus of the national residue monitoring program is on import control so especially for veterinary drug per se those are imported eggs meat and seafood are the focus items for residue monitoring well for the local farm although it's a very small limited sector we also have a local farm surveillance program put in place to ensure the local farms are fulfill the national requirements and also produce the good quality food for the local consumption yeah next slide please when we talk about AMR Singapore has a national strategic action plan on antimicrobial resistance so this action plan exercise the framework for the national response to AMR especially for the bacterial resistance to antibiotics it unifies and formalize the initiatives by the government agencies across the animal human food and environment sectors while providing a roadmap to address the existing gaps and prioritize the future interventions it is also aligned with the international let's say organization guidelines on AMR for the the plans it aims to reduce the emergencies and prevent the spread of drug resistance organism three five major strategies education surveillance and risk assessment research prevention and control infection and also the optimization of the antimicrobial use next slide please yeah with the guidance of the national strategic action plan we have these are following as the competent authorities are working together to ensure the safety and also the residual safety for the veterinary drugs usage and the safety for for the food safety these are the competent authority actually working for example we have ministry of one health working more on the human sectors public health Singapore food agency focusing on food sectors and animal feed and parks the national park border they're covering the non-food and animal sectors well the national environmental agencies and the public utility board they're working on the environmental sectors so all these agencies are working together under the one health platform and also engaging the the industries and key stakeholders to work together to ensure the food safety public health and also the the residues for for the environments next please yeah then when we're talking about the governance of the veterinary drugs the legal basis is very critical and these are the key guidelines and policies we have to ensure the residue policies and regulations are in place for example the sale of food acts which is provides the legal basis to ensure the overall food safety in Singapore and Singapore food agencies in power to carry out its regulation functions then the Singapore food regulation sets the standards for example the MRLs based on these regulations the Singapore food agency is able to implement the national safety surveillance and monitoring program and also SFA regulates the fees which is also important to ensure the food safety and the residue safety then we also regulate the food animals production under the fishery acts and animal and birds acts for example the director general food administration is empowered to issue direction to farmers to restrict the uses of certain antimicrobials next slide please yeah okay then the residue monitoring and regulation actually can be reflected by four levels for example for food and and animal use for food we do the testing we do the enforcement and Singapore food agency and also my division i'm working for the national centre for food science actually is responsible for the antimicrobial resistance testing in food and feed well for the non-food sector and park is the one in charge of the the the information gathering and also the research for the antimicrobial usage for the non-food animals for animal feed SFA is the one in charge of fear they say feed regulation and monitoring well in part will work together with SFA to ensure the imports and the manufacture of the feed for non-food animals well the NEA and and PUB they're working on the environments to ensure the water and the soil and all the environmental sectors right to monitor residue conditions in those samples next okay in uh this FAO2 right also just like Stephen just now introduced actually cover the technical capabilities it works very well for us to to to do a benchmarking exercise to understand the technical overall the technical requirements if you want to do very good let's say the grocery testing testing to ensure the safety for example how are the human resources needed to ensure the residue monitoring capability and what are the physical resources for example laboratory setting the equipment list all those are critical components you should have for a good laboratory setting to ensure the capability in place and for the software part about the laboratory capability for example the methodology wise the techniques and the staff competency part the this FAO2 also have a very comprehensive coverage you can use it to help you to go through and the the laboratory safety part just like uh Stephen highlighted also very important then Singapore has checked through the techniques and we're happy to say we do have established the guidelines and the procedures to ensure the safety and also ensure the the training for the new recruits to join the laboratories we also even have the first eight keys and ecd installed in the laboratory environments yeah next slide yeah uh when we have our this is one health platform which is really unifies all the agencies to work together all the public laboratory responsible for the food and feed safety testing uh our work together under this one health program we have a one house coordination committee which meets regularly to share the information and coordinate the AMR related activities we also call holes our training sections our workshops and also coordinate all the efforts to come by AMR and to divide the joint protocols for zoonotic and football and disease outbreaks then the residue monitoring data are shared although it's in confidentiality among the one house agencies and also with the relevant stakeholders then the residue testing data by the commercial laboratories are also collected by Singapore food agency we will analyze together with our own data to have the overview of the residue occurrence profile for the nation all these efforts actually are working as enablers for us to timely review our policies to enhance the overall national strategic action plan for the antimicrobial monitoring and control next yes so when we use this FAO to to help us to to check through our system we are very happy to conclude that actual Singapore has demonstrated sustainable capabilities for all the major aspects categorized by this tool on the residue monitoring which covers the computer authority overall residue monitoring system technical capability reporting on communication network and also the laboratory safety next yeah this tool actually is very useful in terms of helping the nation to plan for the next steps for example if you use the tool to do the gap analysis you at that event the gaps and you know okay certain parts you need to do further improvement then this tool is very useful that's why we treat it as a thorough systematic review with the tool then we plan how to do for those are following let's say two major areas for further improvement for example for the scope of residue monitoring we want to further expand the antimicrobial monitoring scope in the environmental samples including the soil samples from the vegetable farms and the water samples from the fish farms in addition to the current let's say residue monitoring on the tap water and water from reservoirs we also want to further expand the antimicrobial monitoring in plants for example for fruit and vegetables and also we want to regularly review the list of antimicrobials monitored among the one health agencies this one will try to harmonize across the protocols and the least of all as a compass monitored by different government agencies then another aspect we want to further and enhance is the engagement of the private sectors because we believe government agency alone is it cannot do all the job we have to really engage the the industry to empower them to help us so that we'll be able to grow a bigger commercial testing industry to overall strengthen the national capacity on residue testing so the commercial laboratories can help to provide high levels of as a quality residue testing services to help the local industry and even the exporters and importers next yeah about experiences yeah so we have to really appreciate this opportunity like say invited by FAO to do this a piloting project together with Thailand the overall right we can evaluate this this tool to be a very effective and very very useful tool to help us to assess the to overall comprehensive assess the national residue system because it really have a comprehensive coverage for almost all the experts aspects of the antimicrobial monitoring for a nation and it is very suitable for the government authority especially like Singapore for agency the competent authority to use it to engage other agencies together under the one health platform to to do the assessment exercise and the user can use this to identify the gaps and to come out some strategic action plan to help the nation to further improve the overall system then about the assessment exercise that means how to use the tool to to complete the assessment work the key thing is you should have a network that means luckily in Singapore we have this one house platform so that we can efficiently work with other government agencies to conduct the exercise then we also need to have the key person who can really work together and timely update whatever progress they have under their view and within their organizations then now due to the COVID-19 very special period so a lot of discussions are via the virtual platform for example the zoom sessions and scabs there are a lot of emails and WhatsApp even the WhatsApp tech groups for the very smooth communication discussions then we also recommend whoever wants to pilot this the tool to conduct exercise you have to do a planning session in advance to set the timeline and also timely follow-up with your your colleagues then you will be able to complete the exercise because we believe it is a very extensive exercise if you don't plan properly then it will drag longer yeah then we need to let's say timely summarize the key points and then we can work together with FAO to improve this tool in the future next yeah some recommendations okay for further improvement of this tool so the terms of language in the draft version can be further improved to have a better clarity and user experiences then we suggest a certain granularity for certain questions to focus on the major animal species or food commodities then there are a lot of questions maybe draft too much on a lot of details then we can see whether we can adjust it because so far the tool is very very long so for user friendly let's say experiences can be shortened a bit yeah then for for whoever in the regional in the region wants to really pilot this one we have the following recommendations we believe it is a great opportunity if you want to participate piloting this tool because it can help you to do a thorough benchmarking exercise on your national's residue monitoring system and whatever findings the outcomes of the assessment can be used to justify for support on capacity building for your country for the residue monitoring and enhancement of the overall system in the country yeah so these are the recommendations I can have thank you for your attention you felt you want to have anything to reserve for discussion yeah I'm very open for questions thank you thank you so much pin so everybody that was a pin so if you have a specific question please address that your question to her before giving the floor to panada I would like to just quickly catch up with some of the questions that all the panelists that then FAO will be answering your questions during the session and then a few questions I would like to highlight is like one some logistics the presentation files quite a few people are asking us that if they can have the presentation files then answer is yes all the registered participants will receive a link to the recording of this webinar and then also they will receive the PDF version of the slides and then also that FAO will be publishing the final report of this webinar on the FAO website which is publicly available so I think that in several ways that you can receive the presentation files so hopefully that would clarify all the questions that you are asking and then the second point that I would like to pick up is like I actually I have two that the one is that one question that some people are asking about specific commodities and residue issues and then the assessment tool is basically to assess the capacity of the laboratory to test residues in various commodities so it can be used for milk and dairy products it can be applied for various different livestock commodities so I think that is a good answer to give you so it's anything about veterinary drug residues that this tool can be useful and then as Stefan said at the beginning that the tool is customizable so basically that depending on what objectives that you have those assessors have that tool can be customized to fit for the purpose meaning that I mean this has a good and bad because I mean well I mean both good but then it assessors themselves need to know exactly what they want and then then the tool is going to be very useful as long as the objective is clear the last point that I would like to highlight is that the one attendee is asking I think it is for PIN but then the question about different agencies roles so for example this is a very difficult point because the residue issues usually are for mostly food safety people that who check the residue issues but then I think the point that the attendee is making it's that residue itself I mean if it's safe for human consumption or not is a food safety issues but then monitoring the residue has can have the different purposes for example like environment or use of the antimicrobials or you know different purposes so the point is that animal origin food you know misusing the controlling the antimicrobials for that purpose that only food safety agency doing this assessment may not be effective but then I think that PIN is saying that this collaborative approach has been taken so perhaps that that part PIN you could probably elaborate at the beginning of this assessment what did you do to have this multi-agency stakeholder consultation so over to you PIN so because in Singapore right we have a one health platform under this platform all the relevant agencies that cross the human sectors let's say in the Ministry of Health and the environment let's say the environment agencies and the water resources they all come together that we have our program regulate all the in-charge person will meet together and share information then we'll work together to come out the plan and initiative for example who is in charge of what so clearly they will know okay what functions and the which agency and who is in charge and how to drive it then we have a regular meeting to update the progress and also they can also report whatever issues they have for example they have difficulties in doing certain things and whether can get help from other agencies because different agencies got different expertise and strength and resources so that platform it is a very very important for Singapore then another advantage is because we are very small it's a city space so it's probably easy to engage the different agency to work together at meetings and discussions and even we can share let's say laboratory resources for example we can provide certain things to your laboratory you may you may not have immediately or we can jointly organize certain training sessions or workshops and even like train the staffs and also deploy staff to help each other so that's probably something very useful we will we want to share with others are the one house a platform and is a very very useful and working variable system in Singapore yeah thank you very much pin so everybody if you have any other questions at the please write in the Q&A screen and then also that I see some note that if you see your question is already asked in this answered section you can click on this vote so that this question goes up so that it would be easier for me to pick up during the discussion session so I encourage everybody to look at this answered question tab in the Q&A section thank you very much pin now I would like to keep the floor to Dr. Panada Silva and Panada will be talking about the Thailand experience so thank you very much floor is yours Panada. Good day to all it is my first time that I have the audience of 500 more than 500 people normally the highest number that I have is about 300 to 400 this thanks to the COVID-19 to make us be able to have all many audience to join us and before I go to my point I would to congratulations to Singapore the beautiful country I love Singapore small but beautiful everything is in one unit but friends if you think about our country it will be something different it will not be able to make one unit like one city like Singapore get together however I assure you that we can do it now go to the second slide please the second slide is just nothing just to say that the objective of my using the tools is to provide reality check on improvement of tools this one can achieve very well because I'm not involved in the working group for set up the tool when they gave me the tools when I have a look it's quite thick got scared the first time but please don't after you understand everything you will see how beautiful it is so when I got the tools I'm a very good object to test it because as I don't know anything and then I start to use it uh second the next slide apart from the tool is new to me they gave me about 10 to 15 days of doing it so my experience is very concentrate within this 15 days there are many organizations involved okay I have to identify competent authorities and who are who else and that would include the private sector as well all the competence or authority are government official government organization so they are bureaucratic so bureaucratic is the limitation can be obstructed if I want to get any information from them I need to issue an official letter to ask the big boss to sign and the big boss to say yes and also Thailand we identify ourselves as teaching of the world so we are not import 90 percent we export to Singapore we export to them so the private sector have very strong roles because they're money they're doing it they they have to do their best so this is more and there are many aspects that I asked um that I have to consider to using uh try to use this tool they have import export and also rules and recreation is uh which the Thai FDA not most of them are from Thai FDA to control it and if you look at the phone chain they're stuck uh Singapore have said that from farm to fork we also look at that whereas from production slaughterhouse to farm from farm to slaughterhouse to processing plant to marketing to end product and to end user so there are many things it's just like a big bowl for me when I got that questionnaire next slide please so I emphasize that okay I'm going to do the work systematic assessment for national laboratory of the veterinary ducts drugs and aim to provide guidance to country to work stepwise improvement of capacity or gap analysis I set my aim as that next slide please uh so I'm using the tools I'm having three competent competent authority that get involved is department of livestock development department of fishery because when you're talking about uh drug residue is also in fishery as well apart from that the livestock they have many many products and also uh the FDA who is our regulatory body so first thing I think that okay the tools with this order limitation there I have to get involved at least of these three organizations and look at the tools it's very friendly to user mostly tick tick tick which you like when you've got a questionnaire the questionnaire only for you to tick they have a lot like that but as Stefan has explained they have blank space for you to put in and also you can attach in also mostly the three organizations that I send them or ask them to answer the questionnaire and be with them they don't have any problem in answering this is mean that the questionnaire is good that uh you if you are using it in your country uh the the the wording the language is answered and understand them able I I don't mean that it's beautiful or not but it's understand when you read it you know what they want when they are asked and there are some quantitative figure that you need to fill fill in this is the difficult one uh like the livestock number of chicken that we produce in time or in number per year I got from competent authority but if I ask the private sector it would be much more than that so be aware that my my my uh my report would be some gap there and also they provide friendly to user can add up easily can put on you can enlarge the space and the last in is tick to not tick to tick to it means that it's quite if you print out in black and white it will be quite thick have a lot of number I wonder how all this working group working on this but don't get scared by the thickness of them it's a food questionnaire now uh I'm just go straight to the questionnaire next slide please there are two main parts in the questionnaire because I look at the questionnaire I try to categorize or group them although Stefan has said that they have seven seven seven group but that's how to tick so it that's what I'm concerned so I analyze the first part is the production supply chain import as one part and another part is the controlling system which is you you want more from this from this questionnaire that uh what is the competent authority monitoring system in technical capacity of the lab in man money money that Stefan has said that out of control but you you still can do something with it the method including the sampling the data and the report data report and communication for are very important because it's not go along alone they go and then they have the action to follow so when you analyze it separately it would be uh nice to put together with the action and uh communication and then they have some parts of the safety of the laboratory so buy these two functions buy these two parts part one next slide please part one as production uh which import export and food chain and the part two is monitoring and control we link I try to link it with rules and law because uh one law they may be applicable in the slaughterhouse in in the farm and also at the end of the products they also detect it so linking by this one is just try I'm trying to map try to map that what happened to my country in looking after the whole chain of uh livestock and fishery and whatsoever so I just keep in my mind as two parts like that now I as I keep as is and then I try to do it and then what I learned from this that I would like to share with you next slide please yes okay thank you the first thing is uh if you want to do it you need to identify your stakeholder and function clearly and this one my laws and liberation you can do it the second one that I found that is very handy and can help very well is formulate the full the flow of monitoring who monitoring which or analyze what sent to which lab and the results go which way by communication that can help you to see the picture of the controlling system of your country that will starting from farm to fall and there are many products if you look at the questionnaire there are some questions have raised about it for Thailand chicken with the most and prawn is the most also because we are exported we are export of these two products but there are some swine honey there are eight there are so many things so in each country the importance of this one different from one country to another so in your country you need to list out and prioritize which one you want to do and the last prioritize one I didn't feel some of the questionnaire that the least the least important because I think if you want to do all it will take a lot of time if you remember my first slide they have a crop why when you draw the map it will be something like that a lot like a web of the spider for everywhere so different country have different structure and different system you need to analyze by yourself that how you're going to do it and you need a focal point and a team a team please because if you have the team from different organization you it will be easier for you in that team or the focal point to get information from there we have friend and formal with my friend is much easier to get information and formal can follow later next slide please regarding the source of information when you look at the questionnaire you will try to get people to answer the questionnaire but actually there are some other source of information that you can fill in or can put in or can gather in by by other source of information like the product production arena by private sector I haven't got any information from them yet I just wonder where the information how they're going to improve my report the competent authority you need to identify one one lucky in Thailand that the really main competent authority is department of livestock development which they have a lot of information and department of featuring which you know these two they have different strategy in controlling of the monitoring so you'll be aware of your country as well and also there are a lot of publication and no report that they and no report that they will say so many things okay next slide please I feel that this is a very good tool if somebody gives you a good tool and ask you to do it although you find that it's quite difficult but it will not if you analyze it and understand it like what I have done for 10 to 15 days actually 15 days uh it will not be that difficult but you need a lot of work to do to with this tool you can identify your strength and weakness uh you you can map with the laws and recreation easy to do this one easy to do but very big benefit uh and the workflow like the what I said like the uh weight of the spider that would be able to help you to see the picture and uh you can get more cooperation Singapore have experienced it we also have experienced the same that's why I talking about a group of working group together with the focal point and after that with this tool you can get clear in situation of the country it will benefit you and find uh in document I emphasize again in document in our country in many they are developing country a lot of things that some people know some people don't know and only that person can answer but if you stretch it out into black and white into report it will be very food and benefit to your country and you can use this one as a reference uh to revising your policy when you see some gap or to formulate some new strategies to to just fix all the loop that they don't they have some gap next slide please I like the saying you find that it will be quite difficult for a country like us but there is a rich there is a way you can see that plan is beautiful growth in concrete and I have another saying that I would like to share with you all is uh when wind blows some build wall some real windmills I would like you to build windmills now FAO is facilitate us to fix all these things rather than build the wall don't come to me I don't want to do anything just try to build windmill to go with them it will be very much benefit to us my last slide my last slide thank you that's it thank you very much Panada it was a very clear presentation now that I would like to pick a few questions that the one question to Panada and then a few points that I would like to provide some clarification so let's start from the clarification so we get one comment that wouldn't FAO already have livestock numbers for every country I think this comment is about this FAO stat we have basically that FAO stat is a pretty good information data source on this commodity production and also the important export too but then at the same time I would like to highlight that those numbers are often taken from the estimate from the countries and then also the report from the government agencies and then as Dr. Panada said that if you ask the private sectors that we may get different numbers and then also that this is but basically a modeling result so it's not that specifically really counting the number of carcass or anything like that but then at the same time that I think this comment has a point that in the assessment tool that what we are interested is not exactly the number of carcasses or tons of commodities but then we would like to know the purpose of having effective residue monitoring systems basically so are we focusing on basically public health protection are we focusing on the very stable very good export management or are we focusing on imported food control management or we have a different purposes although the eventual goal is to protect consumers but then at the same time that each government and then also each agency may have a different purposes so that's why that the questions need to be asked and then I think this is a very good take home message for FAO to understand that okay we do have to really ask the question in a way that we would really need to have the answers not in the random way of how many tons how many carcasses I think that is a good comment so thank you very much so next point is the question for Panada that basically that the question is that legal issues are very difficult part of several agencies working together collaboratively on one health issues so is there any operational experience of success so that is the question but then my question to you Panada is that we have been talking about this challenge in the country context in Thailand having multiple agencies tasked on the similar topics and collaborating together so perhaps that Panada you could explain that how you coordinated those different agencies in discussing the same topic together over to you okay okay so the production number is FAO will clarify more for coordination for me I'm doing any work I think coordination or collaboration is very important when I work with my staff I ask my staff that I need your heart not your hand not hands not just do what I so this is the same thing that's why I said that the focal point you may need to select a very what do you call coordinate well coordinate focal point and have a team in there make them feel that they are part of the project they are not just give you information they are part of them and the success of the country also depends on them so when they know that they are in the where where they are in that in that map they would be very very willing to do this challenge I call it positive approach I'm doing a lot of quality system of laboratory so you can you cannot successful do it without positive approach especially from both so what my technique is a positive approach make them feel that they belong to the project and they own it and they do it they are very useful thank you thank you very much Canada look that Dr Silva that you have three specific questions in the open question box so I would kindly request you to write your answer in those two in a box while we'll be moving to the next agenda item so next agenda item is the exciting one actually because FAO will be calling for interest from other countries than Singapore and Thailand so I would like to start with the interactive poll with the participants that I see that the close to 300 people still with us so I'm so excited so we will be polling your responses so our colleague Jim is preparing the poll but then I will read the questions so this you can move the poll window to the side so that you can see the options and question one is that I'm just naming what will you do you're starting doing tomorrow so let's say you as an individual you are one person have been newly tasked to develop an effective national veterinary drug residue monitoring system a huge task and what is the first thing that you will be probably able to start doing for example tomorrow so it's not like next month or next week but then if you have to start something to develop the effective national veterinary drug residue monitoring system tomorrow what you are going to do a I would draft the residue monitoring system development action plan b I will obtain enough funding and manpower to start the work c I will first assess the current capacity of the country's residue monitoring in order to conduct the gap assessment d I will research and study on how other countries are successfully implementing the system e I will formulate a task force so that we can start implementation tomorrow already f I will check with laboratories to understand if it is feasible for my country to test and quantify the residues g I don't think I can start anything tomorrow and then I'm asking you to select only one because it's about tomorrow so you cannot do multiple things so which one would you do to start developing an effective national veterinary drug residue monitoring system so that we can see that what participants think that the first thing first so can you select one and submit so that to my colleague can probably collect all the answers I will give you 30 seconds to select the option a I would draft action plan I will secure the money and people see that I will make the assessment and then do the gap assessment d I will research and study about other countries successful system e that I will make a task force f I will check the laboratory g I don't think I can do and give up so select one and then submit please Jim do we have enough numbers shall we show we have 38 percent so can you select one option so can you um it it's kind of difficult but then which one do you think that is the most priority to start what will you do tomorrow so I give you a few more seconds okay so we have about half voted so shall we close the poll and then show the results please Jim all right so we see a lot C so C is I will first assess the current capacity of the country's residue monitoring in order to conduct the gap assessment and the second largest is the I will research and study on how other countries are successfully implementing the system so you see that if you put yourself into the situation that okay but it's kind of difficult to really start I mean okay not difficult but then I would like to say like sometimes capacity assessment or understanding other countries good practices those are two very boring practices that sometimes FAO has to suggest but then it's not actually these these are the first thing that I think that most of the people think that this is necessary first step so therefore as Stefan explained at the beginning that we really think that we FAO can support the countries by providing the approaches providing the methodology providing the tool to be able to number C so this is the idea of our first question so thank you so much for answering the polls I have a second one that is the last one so can we see the question number two and then I'm going to ask Jim to put up the poll once again too and I will walk you through if you put this poll window to the side and what are the main challenges that you think so what would be the biggest barriers or challenges for your country that you are sitting in order to develop or improve national veterinary drug residue monitoring systems in this option that I am excluding money or manpower or capacities or trainings or laws and regulations because they are actually lacking in many many situations but then they are the ones to actually address the challenges or barriers so basically I would like to identify the actual barriers or actual challenges from those options so option A we don't know exactly who should be taking the lead in developing the effective residue monitoring system in my country so this is the biggest challenge in my country B we don't have any laboratories that can do the proper testing and quantification of the residue so this is the biggest barrier number C in my country so many stakeholders exist multiple agencies private sectors and all kind of agencies so coordination and collaboration will be the biggest challenge number D we don't know how to set up the effective sampling system for the residue analysis E people think this is less of a priority this is not really a huge priority this veterinary drug residue because my country has so many other pressing priorities so this this can be a challenge number F my policy makers or decision makers won't give us money enough money to make this effective system because for them this is not one of the priorities so we do have to start from convincing them number G we don't know where we stand in terms of the capacity level we don't know where the gaps are so we don't know where to start so this is the barrier and then number H well I mean we don't have problems we don't have any barriers so we don't have any challenges so these are the things that I have come up with in terms of the barriers and challenges that I think that it is difficult to choose one I can be multiple but then let's select something biggest in your opinion there is no correct answer or wrong answer I think anything can be a challenge in any given country so if you could select some and then submit that would be great A is the leading agency is uncertain right number B is that laboratory problems number C is that coordination problem number D is a sampling problem and number E is a priority basically in general that the people don't think this is a priority F is another priority problem but then basically that the decision makers policy makers understanding it's not quite yet there and number G is that the capacity level is not known so you don't know where you stand so this is the problem or H you don't have a problem so if you could take a look and then I have about 30% answering so maybe a little bit more if you could help us understand that what could be the main challenge is a barrier to start developing or improving the good national veterinary drug residue monitoring system that would be great so please tell us now that we reached about half so let's give a few more seconds and then let's have okay let's see the results Jimmy please okay there you go so we have quite balanced answers but then C has the big one so people think that the collaboration and coordination is a challenge I do agree basically that there is an livestock department there is a health department there is environment agencies and the food safety people there are different commodities where that veterinary drugs are used so basically that the coordination collaboration is very very big challenge big issue I see E and F I see that the priority conflict exists I do agree that some people think we have and we have food security issues that we don't have food to eat then why we have to spend money on the residue monitoring systems I think that those priority conflict exists and then I see B and A some A that the B that the laboratory problems always exist and then A that the leading agency it's related to number C's I think that this is a molester problem so I think that this tool that we have we'll be able to identify some of the clear gaps when you have a question about B or by using the assessment tool that both countries Singapore and Thailand highlighted that this tool itself the process itself to assess was the good process to actually involve the different stakeholders and different agencies to work together so I think that is a very good insights from all the participants thank you so much for participating in the poll so now that I would like to ask everybody that the please that if you think your country would benefit from the tool please go ahead and then write down your interest in the chat box that write down your country name and saying that we would like to try this tool then we might be able to pick up and then we can start talking but the next slide please come so basically that in order to improve the assessment tool as well as to develop the FAO guide on this residue monitoring system Singapore Thailand already contributed we would like to have more countries to pilot so that we'll be able to have a very good tool that can be used tailored in the different country context next slide please and then the pilot country will benefit from the tool because of various reasons that gap assessment will be done by this pilot team and then this contribution will be used for the global good and then your challenges feedback comments will be fully incorporated into the FAO tool so basically the FAO guide will address your particular country's need and then also it is an opportunity for the individuals to understand the development process of this effective residue monitoring system so that impact of the effective system will be very much visible so next slide please so now that this is the address that you might want to write down that if you are a government official or if you work with any government agencies contact us with their government officials or agencies together and then to participate in the pilot project I put three bullet points if you are in Asian Pacific region that you are you will be able to work with us probably next year to work on this pilot tool and then if you are in the countries in other regions we will be very happy to liaise with our regional offices in your region so that this tool can be shared in other regions so that you will be able to maybe in this pilot project involvement can be possible and then also that you will be definitely able to use the finalize tool so I think that we should keep communicating together and then who knows that we might be able to develop a national project and then do the follow-up on this topic so this is what I suggest so please write down the email address and write to us and then we will be talking about this so with that I think that my presentation is over and then I will give the floor to Mary Joy who will be kindly closing the webinar Joy Joy you are muted. Thank you everyone for your time and participation in this webinar and your contributions we will gather all the inputs that you have provided and also take note of the questions and we will proceed from there as Masamin mentioned this is not the end of this there will be continuing work there will be the report following this we will be sharing the power points but let me take the opportunity to thank everyone who is behind this first and foremost of course the technical working group that has worked with this Singapore team and Thailand team thank you very much for the BQCLP and SFA and of course also to the leadership that you know the flagship of this being led by Masami and of course our external experts Stefan and also with the support from FAO headquarters on this as well let me also take the opportunity to especially thank the the the initial people that developed the framework Dr. Naraya and a gift for this initial work and Dr. Agnes Agunos so this was this would have not been possible of course without the support from our funding agency USAID for this work thank you very much and so on behalf of our teams in FAO regional office for Asia and the Pacific we thank everyone and wishing you all a very good day and have a residue free food safe food for everyone thank you and over to you Masami thank you very much thank you so much all the participants wonderful participation great questions we try to answer everything but then if we miss anything that you add those questions we'll be answered in our final report thank you and have a great day great evening great morning bye