Long Term Consultant: International Specialist: ISO Accreditation Specialist - ADB LAO Sustainable Agrifood Systems Sector Project

Winrock International is recruiting an International Specialist: ISO Accreditation Specialist for an Asian Development Bank (ADB) opportunity in Laos focused on Sustainable Agrifood systems. The project will contribute to food security and nutrition improved, and agricultural value addition increased in a climate resilient and gender-responsive manner in Lao PDR.

Requirements

• Identify current knowledge on food microbiology at the various laboratories.
• Identify current sampling protocols, methods and tools in the various industries such as slaughterhouses, food processing companies and water bottling companies.
• Conduct a workshop on food microbiology and emphasize on food hygiene indicators and food safety parameters and its norms and limits with Codex and EU 2073/2006 on food microbiology as reference material.
• Make recommendations to amend food micro biological relevant to the country and combine this with the introduction of hygiene indicators and food safety parameters.
• Evaluating results of microbiological analyses of food products and advises on risk categorisation for imports and domestic food products.