Food lovers unite! One of the most celebrated Food & Beverage events here in the country is the Manila Food and Beverage Expo (MAFBEX). With over 500 booths to visit and 9 event highlights to bask in, the expo surely is a paradise to the food industry and food enthusiasts as well. Every June, MAFBEX can be found at the World Trade Center Metro Manila Building, Pasay.
Aside from the entertaining cooking and product demos, competitions, franchising opportunities, and food fairs, MAFBEX also offers an event highlight for those who want to learn more on the industry. MAFBEX Seminars are organized by the Worldbex International Organization and De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde’s Young Hotelier’s Exposition. The seminars are free of charge. It covers a wide array of topics that are relevant to the food industry.
MAFBEX Seminar with Key Speaker, FoodSHAP® Vice President for Training and Development Mr. Glenn Hyde Dela Cruz
The Food Safety and Hygiene Academy of the Philippines proudly participates in the 2019 MAFBEX Seminar. FoodSHAP® Vice President for Training and Program Development Mr. Glenn Hyde Dela Cruz conducted a seminar and talked about Handling Food Safety Related Complaints in Food Service Establishments.
The seminar guides food service establishments on how they would handle food safety related complaints by customers. Included in the topic is the statistics of foodborne disease outbreak in the Philippines as well as the places of food poisoning, common signs and symptoms, and risk factors. The speaker also talked about the challenges and issues on Food Safety Implementation in Food Service Establishments and the impact of social media in the fast spread of news on food poisoning incidents. The highlight of the topic is the proper handling of complaints of customers, the use of incubation period-based interview in identifying food poisoning cases, and the root-cause analysis and investigation for continual improvements of food service establishments.
