Lead­ing re­gion­al agri­cul­ture ex­perts have re­stat­ed their com­mit­ment to con­tin­ue strength­en­ing food safe­ty sys­tems in the Caribbean.

The Caribbean Task Force on Food Safe­ty (CTFS) reaf­firmed its man­date dur­ing its 2025 An­nu­al Meet­ing at the Sir Frank Stock­dale Build­ing at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (The UWI), St Au­gus­tine on June 3 and 4, 2025.

Es­tab­lished by CARI­COM in 2021 as a tech­ni­cal ad­vi­so­ry body un­der the guid­ance of the Caribbean Agri­cul­tur­al Health and Food Safe­ty Agency (CAHF­SA), the CTFS is tasked with har­mo­niz­ing food safe­ty mea­sures across the Caribbean.