{
    "success": true,
    "data": {
        "id": 1890212,
        "msgid": "food-safety-begins-with-a-healthy-environment-1785397986",
        "date": "2026-07-30 14:03:34",
        "title": "Food Safety Begins with a Healthy Environment",
        "author": "Qommarria Rostanti",
        "source": "REPUBLIKA",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Regulation",
        "summary": "Indonesia's Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) has stressed that food safety is fundamentally dependent on environmental health, from water quality to raw material sourcing. The agency highlighted that industry compliance with good manufacturing practices must be paired with genuine environmental stewardship to ensure safe, high-quality food. The issue was raised at a key industry event in Jakarta, where cross-sector collaboration was identified as essential for building a secure food ecosystem.",
        "content": "<p>Have you ever wondered where the water used to wash your favourite\nfood ingredients comes from? Or what the condition of the soil is like\nwhere organic vegetables and fruit are grown before they finally appear\non the dining table? For most modern society members who embrace a\nhealthy lifestyle, attention usually stops at nutrition labels, calorie\ncounts, or preservative-free claims. Yet, there is one determining\nfactor that is far more fundamental but often overlooked: the quality of\nthe environment from upstream to downstream.<\/p>\n<p>The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) has reminded the public\nthat the trend of healthy lifestyles and culinary awareness will be\nmeaningless if we neglect environmental sustainability. This crucial\nissue surfaced at the annual REI\u2019s Key Client Network 2025\u20132026 event\ninitiated by PT REI Sistem Indonesia Group in Jakarta, where food safety\nstandards and environmental sustainability were examined in depth with\nindustry stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>As the front line of drug and food supervision in the country, BPOM\nsees that the challenges facing the food industry have now shifted to\nthe ecological realm. The Director of Processed Food Production\nSupervision at BPOM, Sondang Widya Estikasari, highlighted that\ncross-sector collaboration, from government and business actors to\nacademics, is an absolute key to building a food ecosystem that is safe,\nof high quality, and highly nutritious.<\/p>\n<p>Sondang underscored the close relationship between environmental\nhealth and the safety of food consumed by the public daily. \u201cFood safety\nis highly dependent on environmental conditions. If the upstream\nenvironment is not maintained, such as water quality and raw materials\nfrom nature, then the final product is also at risk of being unsafe. By\nencouraging the industry to pay attention to environmental and\nsustainability principles, we are actually safeguarding food safety from\nthe supply of raw materials to processing in accordance with Good\nProcessed Food Production Methods (CPPOB),\u201d she said in a written\nstatement received by Republika on Thursday (30\/7\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>This statement reminds us that the food we consume is a reflection of\nthe earth where it grows. If nature is polluted, it is impossible for\nthe resulting processed food products to be truly safe for the body.\nTherefore, the implementation of CPPOB standards alone is considered\ninsufficient if the industry is not accompanied by genuine concern for\nenvironmental preservation.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/food-safety-begins-with-a-healthy-environment-1785397986",
        "image": ""
    },
    "sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
    "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com"
}