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== Myanmar Innovative Life Sciences (MILS) == Myanmar Innovative Life Sciences (MILS) was founded by U Kyaw Thu Htet, with education backgrounds of Information Technology and Biotechnology after he returned to Myanmar from Singapore in 2012. He founded MILS as a sustainable animal health company to manufacture probiotics to reduce the use of antibiotic in livestock industry. MILS, a signatory of UN Global Impact, is the leading company in Myanmar to support food producers including farmers to help produce safer and higher quality products to have better market linkage.

== Food Safety Forum 2019 == In 2019, Myanmar Innovative Life Sciences and other NGOs such as Myanmar Consumers Union (MCU) and FoSTA Myanmar jointly organized Food Safety Forum 2019 to help solve the challenges especially the lack of knowledge and technology, facing by Myanmar food producers including famers.

Regarding the aim of Food Safety Forum, Daw Su Lwin Htike, food safety adviser and head of Food Safety Business Unit from MILS , said to The Irrawaddy in an interview that, "Some food producers lack the knowledge and technical expertise to produce safe, high-quality products."

U Kyaw Thu Htet, CEO of Myanmar Innovative Life Sciences (MILS), also highlighted the importance of agri-food sector in Myanmar economy and its urgent need to create safer, higher value products in his forum welcome speech.

The Forum brought over 500 attendants from different food producing value chains, and it was attended by all the stakeholders such as regulatory bodies, private sector, consumers, investors and non-government organizations met under the same roof to align the understandings, exchange the dialogues and brainstorm together to overcome the current challenges in improving the food safety conditions in Myanmar agri-food and food sector.

Food Systems Development Activity
In December 2020, Myanmar Innovative Life Sciences (MILS) officially announced that it will be implementing a project named “The Feed the Future Burma Agriculture and Food Systems Development Activity and Myanmar Innovative Life Sciences (MILS) Partnership", which is supported by USAID and ACDI/VOCA with the generous support of the American people.

On the press release statement that was issued on 23 December 2020, MILS said the project will mainly focus on Food System Quality Infrastructure (FSQI) and it was also the very first collaborative activity between a private sector company and an international development agency aimed to technologically intervene the agri-food value chains for improvement of food safety and quality of Myanmar agriculture and food systems so as to strengthen market linkages.