Page 83 - 2018 Annual Report Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan

Annual Report 2018 Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan Students were instructed on the importance of using locally grown traceable ingredients in their lunches as part of Food and Agricultural Education. schools. We also conducted sample tests on 4,224 items of fresh agricultural, fisheries, and animal husbandry products from school lunches. Of these 3,402 agriproducts were tested for pesticide residues, with 3,195 (93.9%) up to standards. Also, 822 animal husbandry products were tested for residual veterinary drugs, with 820 (99.8%) up to standards. D. The COA guided the National Fishermen’s Association and the Ziguan District Fishermen’s Association to provide seafood products meeting the “Four Labels and One QR Code” standard. We also invited key players including school lunch directors, institutional catering business operators, and representatives of parents’ associations to visit seafood production areas to better understand fishing community culture and the fisheries production process, in order to build confidence in (and consequent use of) domestic seafood. In 2018 we expanded this program to 12 institutional catering businesses and 135 schools. On September 21, 2017, the COA began to encourage farmers’ organizations to provide non-staple foods (vegetables) to the nation’s military that had one of three certifications: Traceable Agricultural Products, Gi-Am-Pu, or Organic. During the early trial period about 15.1% of the non-staple foods supplied to the militar y y 81