This FAO evidence platform provides evidence and tools to support governments and stakeholders in the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition (VGFSyN) of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS).
To find relevant documents for a VGFSyN recommendation, select a focus area from the left menu and the sub-focus area of your interest. You will be redirected to a page listing all relevant VGFSyN recommendations. Select a recommendation to access the links to the relevant online documents
Focus Area IV
Food safety across sustainable food systems
This focus area highlights the need for international and national cooperation on food safety, recognizing the importance of effective risks assessments, risk communication and risk management leading to control systems that are appropriate for different scales, contexts and modes of production and marketing. It provides guidance on: strengthening national and international cooperation on food safety; ensuring food safety across food production systems; and protecting consumers from food safety risks in food supplies.
3.4.2 Ensuring food safety across food production systems
The four digit numbering of each recommendation follows the numbering in the VGFSyN, whereby the first digit represents the chapter 3 of the document that includes the 105 recommendations, the second digit the focus area, the third digit the sub-focus
area and the letter the specific recommendation.
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Recommendation 3.4.2.a
Governments, private sector and other relevant stakeholders should implement a One Health Approach(*1) to food safety along the entire food and feed supply chain, where appropriate, recognizing the interconnection between food safety and human, plant, animal and environmental health particularly to prevent and mitigate all food-borne illnesses, including those from zoonotic origin, and other food-borne diseases.
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Recommendation 3.4.2.b
Governments, in collaboration with intergovernmental organizations, should continue to develop and implement science and risk-based national plans taking into account the “Antimicrobial resistance: A manual for developing national action plans” to combat antimicrobial resistance in livestock, aquaculture, and in plants, including in feed production, recognizing and using international standards, guidelines and recommendations, adopted by the international standard setting bodies including those recognized by the [World Trade Organization Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures] WTO SPS agreement to promote and support prudent and appropriate use of antimicrobials, and recalling relevant [Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) FAO Conference resolutions(*1), and recognizing and using Codex Alimentarius Commission standards, guidelines and recommendations, and taking note of the work of [United Nations] UN Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (IACG), where appropriate. A collaborative One Health approach, taking into account the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance, is necessary to reduce AMR, including awareness raising as well as developing the capacity of monitoring [Antimicrobial Resistance] AMR and AMU (Antimicrobial Use) in food and agriculture, as appropriate(*2).