Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

APO Secretary General Visits TDLC

From right to left: Mr. Song Hyun Choi, Director, APO Agriculture Department; Mr. Shigeo Takenaka, Secretary-General, APO; Mr.Shigeru Yoshida, Kamaichi Co.; Dr. Muhammad Saeed, Program Officer, APO Agriculture Department.

Mr. Shigeo Takenaka, Secretary General of the Asian Productivity Organization (APO), visited the TDLC on October 2, 2007 to observe the final session of the organization’s course on ISO 22000. The APO, one of the TDLC’s earliest partners, has been working through the TDLC to expand their distance learning training programs. A total of three courses - Green Productivity and Integrated Management Systems, Toyota Production System, and ISO22000 - were conducted over 9 phases this summer, connecting to sites in 15, 15 and 14 countries respectively to train more than 900 participants.

The final session of the ISO 22000 course connected the TDLC with India, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Philippines, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Mr. Shigeru Yoshida of Kamaichi Co. Ltd., guest speaker for the session, shared his experience on acquiring ISO 22000 certification.

“I am very encouraged by the enthusiastic response from the audience to this excellent presentation” said Mr.Takenaka, expressing his gratitude. “I am one who advocates increasing projects in the area of food safety, so my view has been vindicated by what I have seen today”