Singapore studying food donations past 'best by' date; MPs back motion on food resilience, waste reduction

Each person in Singapore generates about 128kg of food waste annually, said MP Poh Li San, one of the motion’s proposers.

The "best before" label on a packet of bread. (File photo: iStock)

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SINGAPORE: The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) is studying how safe it is to allow food past its “best by” date to be donated, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and the Environment Goh Hanyan said on Wednesday (Sep 9).

This could help to reduce food waste by allowing more edible food to be redistributed rather than discarded.

Ms Goh was speaking in parliament during the debate on a motion tabled by the People’s Action Party’s Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for sustainability and the environment.

The motion by GPC chair Ms Poh Li San, deputy chair Ms Nadia Ahmad Samdin, and members Ms Valerie Lee and Mr Ng Shi Xuan calls on the government to “enhance food resilience and support efforts to reduce food waste through partnerships with all of society”.

CNA Games Guess Word Crack the word, one row at a time Buzzword Create words using the given letters Mini Sudoku Tiny puzzle, mighty brain teaser Mini Crossword Small grid, big challenge Word Search Spot as many words as you can Show More Show Less This is to “ensure Singaporeans have access to affordable food supply amidst geopolitical uncertainties and climate-related risks”. Parliament passed the motion with no amendments after more than four hours of debate. Quality-based date-marks like “best before” and “best used before” differ from safety-based date-marks like “expiry date”. Food manufacturers use a variety of date-marks on their packaging, and there are currently no international guidelines on how long food stays safe for consumption after the expiry date, said Ms Goh. “SFA is thus embarking on a study to assess the safety and feasibility of allowing food that has passed quality-based date-marks to be donated, while maintaining food safety standards,” she said. SFA has stepped up engagement with businesses this year to better understand date-marking practices, said the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE). The agency is finalising its review and more details will be announced in 2027.

This is to “ensure Singaporeans have access to affordable food supply amidst geopolitical uncertainties and climate-related risks”.

Parliament passed the motion with no amendments after more than four hours of debate.

Quality-based date-marks like “best before” and “best used before” differ from safety-based date-marks like “expiry date”.

Food manufacturers use a variety of date-marks on their packaging, and there are currently no international guidelines on how long food stays safe for consumption after the expiry date, said Ms Goh.

“SFA is thus embarking on a study to assess the safety and feasibility of allowing food that has passed quality-based date-marks to be donated, while maintaining food safety standards,” she said.

SFA has stepped up engagement with businesses this year to better understand date-marking practices, said the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE).

The agency is finalising its review and more details will be announced in 2027.

The government should enhance food resilience and support efforts to reduce food waste through partnerships with all of society. This would ensure that Singaporeans have access to affordable food supply amidst geopolitical uncertainties and climate-related risks. MP Poh Li San moved this motion in parliament on Wednesday (Sep 9), saying that Singapore would be better off producing more food locally, wasting less and keeping food prices more affordable. She called for a more coordinated food import policy and food redistribution ecosystem. She also stressed the need to treat local food production capability as part of Singapore’s total defence security. She urged the government to increase its support to boost the local food production and self-sufficiency rate to at least 30 per cent. Turning to food waste, the government should create a more circular food ecosystem so that uncooked food is rescued, redistributed and consumed. Ms Poh also called for stronger support for food charity groups. One way is to have a nationwide community dining ecosystem, with small-scale pilots across various towns.

CLOSING FOOD WASTE LOOP

Singapore generated 790,000 tonnes of food waste in 2025 – about 11 per cent of the total waste generated in the country.

This works out to about 128kg of food waste per person, Ms Poh said in her speech introducing the private member’s motion.

Singapore imports more than 90 per cent of its food from around the world, and people are becoming anxious about rising food costs, she said.

Ms Poh called for a “more coordinated food import policy and food redistribution ecosystem”, and for society to leverage the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act to redistribute more rescued food to benefit low-income families and seniors.

This entails having more and better data. “Without visibility and coordination of the total amount of food that is being imported, we could actually be importing way more than our 6.1 million population can consume,” she said.

She called on SFA to connect existing food import and food waste data sets, which are collected across different agencies, to improve tracking and insights.

"SFA should also track donation volumes by major food suppliers and incentivise them to donate the food items before expiry date,” she said.

Land-use plans can change and be rezoned, but farming capability is much harder to recreate once it is gone, said MP Nadia Ahmad Samdin. Citing plots in southern Lim Chu Kang, she said their tenures will expire by next year, though work for their future defence use may only start from 2030. She asked for a clearer framework for interim farm use, instead of leaving land unused. Where farms have to exit, transition support should also recognise the costs of relocating productive systems and preserving some useful capability, she said. Ms Nadia also spoke about making farms more viable, helping farmers capture more value from their produce and improving their access to more markets beyond the fresh produce shelf. Regionally, she suggested exploring a small number of mutually beneficial agri-food pilots with Malaysia and Indonesia - for instance, in climate-resilient production or green lanes for efficient movement of time-sensitive food. She spoke in parliament on Wednesday (Sep 9).

Ms Poh called for more seed funding, grants and tax rebates to support start-ups that have innovative solutions to closing the food waste loop.

These include digital platforms like Treatsure and Yindii that allow users to buy unsold food at the end of the day at discounted prices; D2L, which works directly with businesses to divert food and product waste; and Ento and WasteMaster, which turn food waste into fish feed.

Charities like Food Bank, Food Rescue Sengkang and Fridge Restock Community should also receive more support and recognition so they can grow their volunteer base and scale up food rescue and redistribution efforts, she said.

GPC member Ms Lee said logistical bottlenecks like storage pose a major challenge to food rescue groups.

Food surplus may only be available for a short window, and the food rescuer may need to mobilise volunteers and refrigerated transport, and do sorting and distribution within hours, she said.

She asked the government to identify suitable land or spaces that can be used for community food rescue storage, especially to support existing networks.

Interim spaces, shared facilities or under-utilised areas can be adapted for food storage, she said, pointing to unused space around Changi as an example.

Similarly, MP Fadli Fawzi (WP-Aljunied) said many food rescue groups rely on volunteers and operate with limited resources while facing high costs to transport large quantities of donated food.

He said the government could do more to support ground-up food rescue initiatives through financial grants and logistical assistance.

Mr Fadli suggested setting up a government-run centralised platform that connects local food businesses directly with neighbourhood food rescue charities, so that surplus food can reach those in need more quickly.

Ms Poh also proposed a nationwide community-dining ecosystem to provide fresh, hot meals made with rescued food to seniors and lower-income families.

She suggested that these meals could be served at convenient locations in every neighbourhood.

The government should consider giving local farms longer leases of 30 years or 20+20 years, so that farmers have more certainty for long-term planning and investment. The leases could be tied to clear production targets and periodic reviews. MP Fadli Fawzi made this suggestion in parliament on Wednesday (Sep 9). He said while land optimisation is important, the current approach does not offer enough consideration for the fact that agriculture relies on long horizons. He also proposed strengthening Singapore’s position as a regional food transshipment and manufacturing hub. This would enable it to “enjoy the same resilience benefit” it got from being an oil refining hub during the fuel supply crisis caused by the Iran war earlier this year.

RESPONSE TO FOOD WASTE PROPOSALS

Ms Goh responded that MSE will take these suggestions into account in its ongoing review of Singapore’s Zero Waste Masterplan.

Acknowledging the GPC’s proposals, she said timely information, effective coordination and practical logistics arrangements are critical for food redistribution networks.

Many of these enterprises have built their networks and matching capabilities as part of their value proposition, she said.

“As we consider how information flows can be improved to enhance ecosystem-wide coordination, we must do it in a way that preserves the innovation and competitive strengths that underpin these precise solutions.”

She said the government’s approach follows a clear hierarchy of first avoiding food waste, then keeping edible food within the system, and finally recovering value from unavoidable food waste.

For mixed food waste, which cannot be valorised into useful products like animal feed, Ms Goh added that recovering energy is a more suitable option.

This will be done through co-digestion at the Food Waste Treatment Facility at Tuas Nexus, which is expected to start operations in the second half of 2028.

It will be able to treat about 18 per cent of Singapore’s annual food waste generated when fully operational.

“We are finalising the fee structure at Tuas Nexus and considering how best to encourage businesses to divert food waste for treatment instead of incineration,” said Ms Goh.

Responding to Ms Poh’s proposal for a nationwide community-dining ecosystem, Ms Goh said the government broadly shares this vision, pointing to hawker centres as the heart of the existing network that provides affordable food close to home.

“Our approach to hawker centres is deliberate and unique. We view them as social infrastructure that keeps affordable food options within the reach of Singaporeans, while strengthening community ties,” she added.

SUPPORTING LOCAL FOOD PRODUCTION

Beyond food redistribution, the GPC members proposed changes including more support for local food production, spanning local farming, strengthening supply chains and developing alternative proteins.

Ms Poh called for the government to review increasing support for local food production and to raise Singapore's food self-sufficiency rate to at least 30 per cent.

She said that domestic production could provide a buffer against supply disruptions.

Ms Nadia similarly called for local production to be a strategic capability and to think of the farming sector as a "portfolio of capabilities", rather than expect every farm to adopt the same model.

She asked whether support could be given to different categories of farms – including smaller, community-based or more diverse farms – based not only on tonnes produced per hectare, but also their resilience value through different crops, species, and farming methods.

At a regional level, Ms Nadia proposed that Singapore explore agri-food pilots in climate-resilient production and cold-chain solutions with Malaysia and Indonesia.

Ms Lee proposed strengthening the resilience of supply chains alongside diversifying food sources.

"Having more than 180 sources is valuable. But we should ask: do these sources depend on common shipping routes, ports, cold-chain infrastructure, logistics providers?

"If several suppliers are affected by the same chokepoint, our diversification may not provide as much resilience as we expect," she said.

She suggested taking partnerships with other countries further by designing the pathway for food to reach Singapore, factoring in alternative ports or shipping routes, and whether regulatory approvals can be activated quickly, among other considerations.

Mr Ng proposed shifting the approach from “grow local” towards “produce local”, leveraging technology and innovation.

He suggested that the government clarify the long-term role it sees for alternative proteins, accelerate commercialisation and preserve capabilities in the sector.

His proposals included broadening the scope of Market Readiness Assistance grants for food-production companies to cover areas such as overseas certification and regulatory approvals so that companies can scale in overseas markets.

MP Dennis Tan (WP-Hougang) proposed a GST exemption on local food carrying the SG Fresh Produce logo, and lower corporate tax rates or more tax concessions for SFA-licensed agricultural enterprises.

RESPONSE TO FARMING PROPOSALS

Responding to calls to boost local production, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu said the government's approach is to help farms build capabilities and scale, rather than permanently offset their higher operating costs.

She said Singapore had "refreshed" its local production targets to build the capability and capacity to supply 20 per cent of local fibre consumption and 30 per cent of local protein consumption by 2035.

Growing local is one of four key pillars under Singapore Food Story 2, its main strategy for food resilience.

Since 2019, more than S$240 million (US$190 million) has been set aside to support local production, she said.

The Agri-food Cluster Transformation Fund, established in 2021, helps farms adopt technologies and build capabilities, resulting in productivity improvements.

The government offers targeted and time-limited assistance during periods of shock, Ms Fu said, citing the one-off Farm Business Resilience Support grant introduced in July to help local farms cope with cost pressures from the Middle East conflict. More than 80 farms have applied over the past month.

On demand for local produce, Ms Fu said SFA is supporting the Singapore Agro-Food Enterprises Federation to aggregate supply from farms and match it with demand.

Ms Fu said the aim was not simply to increase the number of farms, subsidise operating costs indefinitely or guarantee demand, but to help farms make structural changes, gain economies of scale and become more viable over the long term.

Responding to Mr Ng's call to clarify the long-term strategy on alternative proteins, Ms Fu said the global alternative protein industry has faced headwinds, including weaker-than-expected consumer acceptance.

The government has supported more than 50 alternative protein projects with about S$130 million in research and development funding.

For cell-based proteins, this includes efforts to reduce production costs and scale up manufacturing, while work on plant-based proteins includes improving their nutrition, taste and texture.

The minister said that Singapore has built a food system that has "weathered a pandemic, conflicts, and climate stresses".

"This resilience is the result of deliberate choices and collective effort by the government, the industry, and our people. It must be renewed with every generation," she added.

“Our commitment is clear: whatever happens beyond our shores, our essential food needs will be met.”

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议员傅丽珊（Poh Li San）是该动议的提出者之一，她表示，新加坡每人每年产生约 128 公斤的食物垃圾。

面包包装上的“最佳食用日期”标签。（图片来源：iStock）

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新加坡：新加坡食品局（SFA）正在研究允许捐赠超过“最佳食用日期”的食品是否安全，永续发展及环境部高级政务次长吴汉彦周三（9月9日）表示。

这有助于减少食物浪费，使更多可食用的食物得到重新分配而不是丢弃。

吴女士在国会就人民行动党政府议会委员会（GPC）提出的关于可持续发展和环境的动议进行辩论时发表了讲话。

国民议会主席傅丽珊女士、副主席纳迪亚·艾哈迈德·萨姆丁女士以及议员瓦莱丽·李女士和吴世轩先生提出的动议呼吁政府“通过与全社会的合作，增强粮食韧性并支持减少食物浪费的努力”。

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这是为了“确保新加坡人在地缘政治不确定性和气候相关风险的情况下能够获得价格合理的食品供应”。

经过四个多小时的辩论，议会未经任何修改便通过了该动议。

基于质量的日期标记（如“最佳食用日期”和“最佳使用日期”）与基于安全的日期标记（如“过期日期”）有所不同。

吴女士表示，食品生产商在包装上使用各种日期标记，目前还没有国际准则规定食品在过期后可以安全食用多长时间。

“因此，新加坡食品局正在着手进行一项研究，以评估允许捐赠已通过质量检验日期标记的食品的安全性和可行性，同时保持食品安全标准，”她说。

新加坡食品局 (SFA) 今年加强了与企业的沟通，以更好地了解日期标记做法，可持续发展与环境部 (MSE) 表示。

该机构正在完成审查，更多细节将于 2027 年公布。

政府应加强粮食韧性，并通过与社会各界合作，支持减少食物浪费的各项举措。这将确保新加坡民众在面临地缘政治不确定性和气候相关风险的情况下，仍能获得价格合理的食物供应。议员傅丽珊（Poh Li San）于周三（9月9日）在国会提出这项动议，她表示，新加坡若能提高本地粮食产量、减少浪费并保持食品价格更加亲民，将会受益匪浅。她呼吁制定更加协调的粮食进口政策和食物再分配体系。她还强调，必须将本地粮食生产能力纳入新加坡的整体国防安全考量。她敦促政府加大支持力度，将本地粮食产量和自给率提升至至少30%。在食物浪费问题上，政府应构建更加循环的食物生态系统，以便回收、再分配和消费未加工的食物。傅丽珊议员还呼吁加大对食物慈善团体的支持力度。其中一个方法是在全国范围内建立社区餐饮生态系统，并在各个城镇开展小规模试点。

闭合食物垃圾循环

新加坡在 2025 年将产生 79 万吨食物垃圾，约占该国垃圾总量的 11%。

Poh女士在介绍私人议员动议的演讲中表示，这相当于每人每年浪费约128公斤食物。

她说，新加坡90%以上的食品依赖进口，人们越来越担心食品价格上涨。

Poh女士呼吁建立“更加协调的食品进口政策和食品再分配体系”，并呼吁社会利用《好撒玛利亚人食品捐赠法》重新分配更多获救食品，以造福低收入家庭和老年人。

这意味着我们需要更多更好的数据。“如果我们无法掌握和协调进口食品的总量，我们实际进口的食品量可能远远超过我们610万人口的消费能力，”她说道。

她呼吁新加坡食品局将不同机构收集的现有食品进口和食品浪费数据集连接起来，以改进跟踪和洞察。

她表示：“新加坡食品局还应该追踪主要食品供应商的捐赠量，并激励他们在食品过期前捐赠出去。”

国会议员娜迪亚·艾哈迈德·萨姆丁表示，土地用途规划可以变更和重新划分，但农业生产能力一旦消失，就很难重建。她以林厝港南部的一些地块为例，指出这些地块的租约将于明年到期，但用于未来国防用途的工程可能要到2030年才会启动。她呼吁制定更清晰的临时农业用途框架，而不是任由土地闲置。她表示，如果农场不得不退出，过渡支持也应考虑到生产系统搬迁的成本以及保留部分有用能力的费用。娜迪亚女士还谈到要提高农场的生存能力，帮助农民从农产品中获取更多价值，并改善他们进入新鲜农产品货架以外更多市场的渠道。在区域层面，她建议与马来西亚和印度尼西亚探索一些互惠互利的农产品试点项目，例如，在气候适应型生产或为时效性食品高效运输建立绿色通道方面开展合作。她于周三（9月9日）在国会发表了讲话。

Poh女士呼吁提供更多种子资金、补助金和税收返还，以支持那些拥有创新解决方案来闭合食物浪费循环的初创企业。

其中包括 Treatsure 和 Yindii 等数字平台，这些平台允许用户以折扣价购买当天未售出的食物；D2L，它直接与企业合作，以减少食物和产品浪费；以及 Ento 和 WasteMaster，它们将食物垃圾转化为鱼饲料。

她表示，像食物银行、盛港食物救援和冰箱补给社区这样的慈善机构也应该得到更多的支持和认可，以便它们能够扩大志愿者队伍，并扩大食物救援和再分配工作。

GPC成员李女士表示，仓储等后勤瓶颈对食物救援组织构成重大挑战。

她说，剩余食物可能只在很短的时间内供应，食物救援人员可能需要动员志愿者和冷藏运输工具，并在几个小时内完成分拣和分发。

她要求政府确定可用于社区食物救援储存的合适土地或空间，特别是支持现有网络。

她表示，临时空间、共享设施或未充分利用的区域可以改造成食品储存场所，并以樟宜机场周围的闲置空间为例。

同样，议员法德利·法兹（工人党-阿裕尼）表示，许多食物救援组织依靠志愿者，在资源有限的情况下运作，同时还要面对运输大量捐赠食物的高昂成本。

他表示，政府可以通过财政拨款和后勤援助，为基层食品救援行动提供更多支持。

法德利先生建议建立一个由政府运营的集中平台，将当地食品企业与社区食品救援慈善机构直接联系起来，以便剩余食品能够更快地送到有需要的人手中。

Poh女士还提议建立一个全国性的社区餐饮生态系统，为老年人和低收入家庭提供用回收食物制作的新鲜热餐。

她建议在每个社区的便利地点提供这些餐食。

政府应考虑给予本地农场更长的租期，例如30年或20+20年，以便农民在进行长期规划和投资时更有保障。租约可以与明确的生产目标和定期审查挂钩。议员法德利·法齐（Fadli Fawzi）于周三（9月9日）在国会提出了这项建议。他表示，虽然土地优化利用很重要，但目前的做法并未充分考虑到农业依赖于长期发展这一事实。他还建议加强新加坡作为区域食品转运和制造中心的地位。这将使新加坡能够“享受到与今年早些时候伊朗战争引发的燃料供应危机期间作为炼油中心所获得的同样的韧性优势”。

对食物浪费提案的回应

吴女士回应说，MSE将在对新加坡零废弃物总体规划进行持续审查时考虑这些建议。

她对全球粮食委员会的提议表示赞同，并表示及时的信息、有效的协调和切实可行的物流安排对于粮食再分配网络至关重要。

她表示，许多此类企业都将构建自身网络和匹配能力作为其价值主张的一部分。

“当我们考虑如何改进信息流以加强整个生态系统的协调时，我们必须以一种能够保留支撑这些精准解决方案的创新和竞争优势的方式来做到这一点。”

她表示，政府的做法遵循一个明确的层级，首先是避免食物浪费，然后是将可食用的食物留在系统中，最后是从不可避免的食物浪费中回收价值。

吴女士补充说，对于无法转化为动物饲料等有用产品的混合食物垃圾，回收能源是一个更合适的选择。

这将通过在 Tuas Nexus 食品垃圾处理厂进行协同消化来实现，该厂预计将于 2028 年下半年开始运营。

全面投入运营后，该设施将能够处理新加坡每年产生的约 18% 的食物垃圾。

“我们正在最终确定 Tuas Nexus 的收费结构，并考虑如何最好地鼓励企业将食物垃圾转移进行处理而不是焚烧，”吴女士说。

针对 Poh 女士提出的建立全国社区餐饮生态系统的提议，Goh 女士表示，政府总体上认同这一愿景，并指出小贩中心是现有网络的核心，可以提供价格实惠、方便快捷的食物。

她补充说：“我们对小贩中心的理念是经过深思熟虑且独树一帜的。我们将其视为社会基础设施，既能让新加坡人更容易获得价格实惠的食物选择，又能加强社区联系。”

支持本地食品生产

除了食物重新分配之外，GPC成员还提出了一些改革措施，包括加大对本地食物生产的支持力度（涵盖本地农业）、加强供应链以及开发替代蛋白质。

Poh女士呼吁政府重新审视加大对本地食品生产的支持力度，并将新加坡的食品自给率提高到至少30%。

她表示，国内生产可以缓冲供应中断的影响。

纳迪亚女士也呼吁将本地生产视为一项战略能力，并将农业部门视为“能力组合”，而不是期望每个农场都采用相同的模式。

她询问是否可以向不同类别的农场（包括规模较小的、社区型的或更多样化的农场）提供支持，不仅要考虑每公顷的产量，还要考虑它们通过不同作物、品种和耕作方式所展现出的韧性价值。

在区域层面，纳迪亚女士提议新加坡与马来西亚和印度尼西亚合作，探索气候适应型生产和冷链解决方案方面的农产品食品试点项目。

李女士建议在加强供应链韧性的同时，实现食品来源多元化。

拥有超过 180 个货源固然有价值，但我们应该问：这些货源是否依赖于共同的运输路线、港口、冷链基础设施和物流供应商？

她表示：“如果多个供应商受到同一瓶颈的影响，我们的多元化经营可能无法提供我们预期的那种韧性。”

她建议进一步加强与其他国家之间的合作，设计食品运往新加坡的途径，考虑替代港口或航运路线，以及监管部门能否迅速获得批准等因素。

吴先生提议将方法从“本地种植”转变为“本地生产”，充分利用技术和创新。

他建议政府明确其对替代蛋白的长期作用的看法，加快商业化进程，并保持该领域的能力。

他的提议包括扩大食品生产企业市场准备援助补助金的范围，涵盖海外认证和监管批准等领域，以便企业能够在海外市场扩大规模。

国会议员陈志远（工人党-后港）提议对带有“SG Fresh Produce”标志的本地食品免征消费税，并降低企业税率或给予获得新加坡食品局许可的农业企业更多税收优惠。

对农业提案的回应

针对各界呼吁提高本地产量，永续及环境部长傅海燕表示，政府的做法是帮助农场提升能力和规模，而不是永久性地抵消其较高的运营成本。

她表示，新加坡已“更新”了本地生产目标，以建立能力和产能，到 2035 年满足本地 20% 的纤维消费量和 30% 的蛋白质消费量。

发展本地产品是新加坡食品故事 2 的四大支柱之一，也是新加坡实现食品韧性的主要战略。

她表示，自 2019 年以来，已拨出超过 2.4 亿新元（1.9 亿美元）用于支持本地生产。

成立于 2021 年的农业食品集群转型基金，旨在帮助农场采用新技术并提升能力，从而提高生产力。

傅女士表示，政府会在危机时期提供有针对性且有时限的援助。她举例说，政府在7月份推出了一次性的“农场经营韧性支持补助金”，旨在帮助本地农场应对中东冲突带来的成本压力。过去一个月，已有超过80家农场申请了该补助金。

针对对本地农产品的需求，傅女士表示，新加坡食品局正在支持新加坡农粮企业联合会整合农场的供应，使其与需求相匹配。

傅女士表示，其目标并非仅仅是增加农场数量、无限期补贴运营成本或保证需求，而是帮助农场进行结构性变革，获得规模经济效益，并在长期内更具生存能力。

针对吴先生要求澄清替代蛋白长期战略的呼吁，傅女士表示，全球替代蛋白行业面临诸多不利因素，包括消费者接受度低于预期。

政府已资助超过 50 个替代蛋白质项目，投入约 1.3 亿新元的研发资金。

对于细胞蛋白而言，这包括努力降低生产成本和扩大生产规模；而对于植物蛋白而言，这包括改善其营养、口味和质地。

部长表示，新加坡已经建立了一个“经受住了疫情、冲突和气候压力”的食品体系。

她补充说：“这种韧性是政府、企业和人民深思熟虑的选择和共同努力的结果。它必须代代相传，不断更新。”

“我们的承诺很明确：无论境外发生什么，我们的基本食品需求都将得到满足。”

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