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The Singapore Food Agency also intends to improve food safety and will be the sole organisation regulating this across the food supply chain from next April.

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Derek Wong

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The setting up of a new food agency here may well be a savoury prospect for food businesses and consumers.
From April, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) will take over the food-related functions of the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA), the National Environment Agency and the Health Sciences Authority.
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