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Amy Proulx of Niagara College, Canada, writes on her experience of the North American Food Safety Summit
Over the past 2 days, June 7 and 8, 2021, food safety leaders from across North America joined the North American Food Safety Summit, and I had the privilege of being one of the hosts for the event along with my friend, Dr Darin Detwiler at Northeastern University. Setting up a web cam feed that works for camera angles and manages all the scripts and notes effectively takes creativity. To get a good camera angle, I set up a step [...]
10 June 2021
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CCFICS25 /standards delivering meaningful benefits for trading nations
Fran Freeman, Chairperson CCFICS
Australia hosted the first virtual session of the 25th Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification Systems (CCFICS25) from 31 May to 08 June 2021. The work of CCFICS is crucial, particularly as we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, in assisting global efforts to modernize food safety systems and deliver guidance that can influence regulatory standards related to food import and export inspection and certification systems.
Virtual meetings can bring their own challenges – time zones never work for everyone! Although the [...]
10 June 2021
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National Quality Association of Tanzania (NQAT) miniseries webinar
On 9 June 2021, the National Quality Association of Tanzania (NQAT), a member-based association, which acts as a National Quality Platform for sustainable development, held a miniseries webinar about World Food Safety Day.
The miniseries which will be held every two weeks, was moderated by Mr Safari Fungo.
Among the concerns and recommendations that were raised were:
The importance of strengthening advocacy on consumer protection.
It is important to put emphasis on the implementation of food labeling i.e., work on putting warning signs on certain foods that may cause harm to the consumer.
The importance of stakeholders in the food safety [...]
09 June 2021
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World Food Safety Day given a high profile in Tanzania
In Tanzania, representatives of government, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) were all active across mainstream and social media on 7 June to promote World Food Safety Day.
In a televised press conference, Rose Shija Muhangwa, on behalf of the WHO representative to Tanzania and Bwana Gervas Kaisi, Acting Director of Quality Control at the Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) held a joint press conference in which they each highlighted the collective responsibility of keeping food safe. “Citizens have [...]
09 June 2021
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World Food Safety Day in North Macedonia
As a national Codex Contact Point for North Macedonia, the Food and Veterinary Agency joined the global campaign in the celebration of June 7 - World Food Safety Day. The aim of the initiative was to bring together different stakeholders involved in the food chain and through a public debate to raise awareness for food safety as well as inform the public about the importance of preventing and managing the risks associated with food, promoting health, economic prosperity, agricultural development [...]
09 June 2021
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Australia kicks off World Food Safety Day with a global outlook
One of the first World Food Safety Day events this year took place in Australia in an event jointly hosted by Environmental Health Australia (EHA) and the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) of the United States of America. The aim of the event was, over a 24-hour period, to talk with food safety regulators from around the world to get an idea of the different – and similar – challenges, approaches and practices encountered in different countries.
The Australian half of [...]
09 June 2021
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PolySafe food safety webinar in Romania
On 8 June 2021, Romania held a webinar 'From raw material to product' on the theme of food safety among food companies. Several representatives from food industry companies in Romania, an official from the Romanian National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority and an official from the Romanian Veterinary and Food Safety Directorate held presentations about the measures they implement to ensure food safety inside the process chain, the overall food safety management, and defense, as well as the special measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. The discussions also [...]
08 June 2021
La FAO, la OMS y el Codex celebran el Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos de 2021 con una charla virtual sobre ciencia
El director general de la FAO, QU Dongyu, y el director general de la OMS, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a través de mensajes de vídeo difundidos con ocasión de la apertura de un encuentro en línea celebrado el 7 de junio de 2021 a través de Zoom y transmitido por Internet, pidieron que se llevara a cabo una acción mundial conjunta para que todas las personas tengan acceso a alimentos inocuos ahora para un mañana saludable.
"La inocuidad de los alimentos es [...]
08 June 2021
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World Food Safety Day celebrated in Georgia
In celebration of World Food Safety Day, the National Food Agency of Georgia has presented its annual report. The event was opened by Mr. Levan Davitashvili, the Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia, who highlighted the achieved results and new challenges and thanked FAO and other international organizations for their continuous support in ensuring food safety in the country.
"I would not exaggerate to state that in terms of food safety, the ministry has been working continuously, consistently and [...]
08 June 2021
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Kazakhstan holds Round Table "Safe food now for a healthy tomorrow" dedicated to World Food Safety Day.
As the Vice Minister of Health care E. Kiyasov (main photo) noted, food products consumed by the population determine the standard of living and well-being of future generations. WHO estimates that the consumption of food contaminated with bacteria, viruses or parasites, as well as toxic or chemical substances, causes 600 million cases of foodborne illness and 420 000 lethal cases each year.
A welcoming speech was made by the founder of the primary health care in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the [...]
08 June 2021
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