 Access to safe, affordable, and nutritious food is a right that every Filipino should enjoy. It comes with a recognition that an effective food safety system is key not only to safeguard the health and general well-being of people but also to foster economic development. Food safety goes along with our vision of helping Filipino food producers. Food trade of frozen chicken, pork, fish are very important in the economy. We ensure that food quality is highly considered so that food producers enjoy good prices at the same time protecting the country from any entry of contaminated food. The Department of Agriculture, together with its Food Safety Regulatory Agencies and Offices, is continuously effecting several initiatives to realize its role under the Food Safety Act. As it acknowledges its strengthened mandates. In 2016, the Department Order No. 07, Series of 2016, amending Department Order No. 3, establishing the Department of Agriculture institutional structure and arrangements on regulatory policy work. Streams, coordination, and monitoring was issued to streamline the regulatory policies and services of the Department. There is also the Department Order No. 07, Series of 2017, regarding the designating the Agricultural Training Institute as lead agency in developing and coordinating a Food Safety Regulation Training Program for the Department of Agriculture, which aims to develop a standard Food Safety Training Course for government personnel, food business, operators, and food hunters involved in the primary and post harvest stages of the food supply chain. Recently, the DA issued Department Order No. 07, Series of 2018, on establishing the DA Food Safety Program for the primary and post harvest food and feed production sectors of agriculture and fisheries, and creating the DA Food Safety Body which aims to fully carry out the mandate and requirements of the Food Safety Act through the development and implementation of a sustained food safety program instigated at the national level and cascaded down to the regional, provincial, and municipal levels to have a more effective coordination and linkage with various FSRAs and other support agencies identified in the Food Safety Act of 2013, the Department of Agriculture initiated the creation of a Food Safety Focal Group by virtue of Special Order No. 1-5-5 Series of 2018 and was amended through Special Order 445 last May 2020 to enhance food safety initiatives at the regional level leading to the creation of the Regional Food Safety Group. We sent representatives to the first World Food Safety Day last June 2019 reviewing our commitment to food safety with the FAO. We had representations in the FAO regional office for Asia and the Pacific, FAO RAP, consultation on food safety indicators in December 2017 in Singapore, wherein a review of food safety indicators was made to pinpoint which are useful in terms of our country's priorities. This was pushed in January 2019 with the approval of the FAO DA-Initiated Project called Development of National Food Safety Indicators in the Philippines with a One Health Approach. The Philippine College of Veterinary Public Health serve as the service provider. A series of workshops were conducted participated by DA's Food Safety Regulatory Agency's FSRA's particularly the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources BIFAR and the National Meat Inspection Service NMIS with objective of improving the National Food Control System and in the planning of food safety programs using these indicators. The Philippines together with Bhutan, China and Cook Islands are the FAO pilot areas in this project on food safety indicators where a regional meeting was held in Wuhan, China in November 2019.