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Message from Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region
On World Food Safety Day, WHO South-East Asia Region calls to intensify efforts to prevent, detect, and manage the risk of foodborne diseases, which globally make 600 million people sick every year. In her message Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh explains that safe food is critical to promoting health and ending hunger, two of the 17 goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. She also reminds that food safety is everyone’s business and we must all do our part.
“Though COVID-19 has [...]
17 June 2021
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Asian Institute of Technology students summarise their work in World Food Safety Day video
The students and staff of the Food Engineering and Bioprocess Technology (FEBT) and Food Innovation, Nutrition and Health (FINH) programme at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok have produced a video to mark World Food Safety Day, which offers a summary of the food safety-related work they have done over the last year.
In the video, Professor Anil Kumar Anal says that food safety is everyone’s responsibility and should be the utmost priority for a sustainable and healthier society. “Foodborne [...]
17 June 2021
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Food Safety at the Grand Hyatt Kochi Bolgatty in India
During the Food Safety Week 2021, the Grand Hyatt Kochi Bolgatty shared a detailed video on the various aspects of the topic, focusing on United Nations organizations’ proposed theme of “Safe Food Now for a Healthy Tomorrow”. Following Hyatt’s philosophy of Thoughtfully Sourced Carefully Served Food, it showed how the hotel chose its vendors, sourced its ingredients, stored them and served the most popular delicacies to its guests.
Executive Chef Yogender Pal along with the Director of Food & Beverages Shoeb [...]
17 June 2021
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Food safety management at the heart of the webinars at the Senac University Center in Brazil
Two webinars organized on June 7 and 9 at the Senac University Center in Brazil with the goal to highlight food safety management practices gathered an audience of about 200 undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and food safety professionals.
Moderated by Dr Lais Mariano Zanin, the first webinar opened with a presentation by MsC Raísa Mucinhato who spoke about water and school nutrition in the context of a dialogue on food safety and the United Nations 2030 agenda. Following MsC Simone Crispim [...]
17 June 2021
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Federal University of São Paulo in Brazil leads a World Food Safety Day webinar
Research group “Dialogues on risk and food safety in interdisciplinary contexts” at the Federal University of São Paulo in Brazil held a webinar on June 7 in celebration of the World Food Safety Day, attended by about 450 undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and food safety professionals.
The webinar opened with a presentation by Dr Laís Mariano Zanin who discussed the importance of the World Food Safety Day, explained the theme of the year “Safe food now for a healthy tomorrow” [...]
17 June 2021
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One of the largest Brazilian companies in the fish sector celebrates World Food Safety Day
In commemoration of the World Food Safety Day, Frescatto company, one of the largest companies in the fish sector in Brazil, carried out an awareness campaign among its employees to reinforce the importance of food safety and remind of the importance of preventing, managing and detecting food-borne risks.
The goal of the campaign was to strengthen the commitment to quality and high standards in its processes and operations and offer safe products to consumers.
The company also promoted the initiative, along with [...]
17 June 2021
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Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health tweets ‘five commandments’ of food safety
In a series of tweets, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health has joined in the World Food Safety Day celebrations, with some illustrative animations, tips on food safety and advice for the general public.
The 7 June tweets start with general messages observing that the COVID-19 pandemic has meant “the world has been through great changes” and as a consequence, people are cooking at home a lot more than they would beforehand. The ministry was therefore offering some advice on how to [...]
17 June 2021
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Arty supermarket team members educate colleagues on World Food Safety Day
Two team members at Whole Foods Market in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the United States of America decided to educate their colleagues for World Food Safety Day this year, by creating “impactful displays” in the staff common rooms. Sirena and Krista used a lot of initiative and “our art backgrounds, to build and set up impactful displays to show how food safety is important.”
They created a walk-through, installation “putting into perspective the number of lives lost every year to foodborne illness”, [...]
17 June 2021
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Hungary’s Food Chain Safety Office prevents pain with its World Food Safety Day video
Staff at Hungary’s National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) have produced a humorous video to drum home a central message of World Food Safety Day: that failing to wash your hands when handling food can lead to discomfort and illness.
The video was created by the communication staff of the Nébih office, with one colleague becoming inspired by a popular ‘meme’ character in Hungary, by the name of Harold. ‘Harold’ is actually an electrical engineer by the name of András Arató, who, some 12 years [...]
17 June 2021
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Jamaican authorities celebrate World Food Safety Days with a week-long series of events
A week-long series of World Food Safety Days events in Jamaica began on Sunday, May 30, with a church service held at the Webster’s Memorial United Church.
Hon. Floyd Green, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries recorded a video address where he spoke about the importance of safe food for food security, the efforts of the government to improve food safety and the theme of the celebrations in the country “Safe food now for a healthy Jamaica”.
On June 4, the authorities [...]
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