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Ministra de Economía de El Salvador: Se prevé la aplicación y difusión de mejores prácticas de producción
El Salvador se unió a la conmemoración del Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos a través de un conversatorio virtual donde se dieron cita representantes de instituciones públicas, la industria de alimentos, organismos internacionales y universidades para hablar sobre el lema de este año: Alimentos seguros ahora, para un mañana saludable.
El Organismo Salvadoreño de Reglamentación Técnica -OSARTEC-, como Punto de Contacto del Codex Alimentarius organizó la actividad que contó con la participación de más de 230 espectadores y [...]
07 June 2021
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Kenya join the world in marking World Food Safety Day
On June 7, 2021, Kenya joined the rest of the world in celebrating the 3rd World Food Safety Day. The theme of this year being ‘Safe Food Today, for a Healthy Tomorrow,’ the country organized an online webinar to raise awareness and inspire action on the importance of food safety in the country and the African region at large.
The National Planning Committee Coordinated by the Ministry of Health held a 5-hour webinar which included panelists from various stakeholders of food [...]
07 June 2021
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The Food Safety Commission of Japan plans World Food Safety Day Kids Box revamp
For fans of the Food Safety Commission of Japan’s (FSCJ) Kids Box feature, standby for a revamp! The FSJC is planning to introduce new characters to mark World Food Safety Day, so check them out on 7 June at:
https://www.fsc.go.jp/kids-box/
https://www.facebook.com/cao.fscj
Kids Box introduces young people to different food safety concepts and gives them age-appropriate information on subjects like allergies, food poisoning and food preservation.
The FSCJ Chairperson will has also prepared a video address that will be available on the organization’s Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnQF9MyO0Zd_jsYdj73jaw
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06 June 2021
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Philippines Food Safety Academy to hold a month of food safety webinars
FoodSHAP, the Food Safety and Hygiene Academy of the Philippines, has organized free Food Safety Webinars for the whole month of June, which are aimed at “consumers at home, in school, and in the tourism and hospitality industry.”
Starting on World Food Safety Day itself, there will be four webinars in total, covering arrange of subjects connected to some of the World Food Safety Day calls to action:
7 June Keep it Safe: Food Business Operators Best Practices to Food Safety
with speakers [...]
06 June 2021
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SSAFE creates a series of posters with FAO for World Food Safety Day
For World Food Safety Day 2021, SSAFE has collaborated with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to develop a series of posters to demonstrate that together, through partnerships, we can do more to deliver safe food. Because food safety is everyone’s business!
The six posters, which you can download for free below, cover the following key topics:
Ensuring food safety throughout the supply chain: the journey of a vanilla bean
Food safety is science-based
Global process standardization drives food safety [...]
06 June 2021
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Regional 2-day webinar for Latin America and the Caribbean hears how “feeding the planet is an opportunity for the whole region”
To open the week leading up to World Food Safety Day, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the International Regional Organisation for Animal and Plant Health (OIRSA) and the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (CCLAC) organized a two-day webinar to discuss the impact of food contaminants, traceability systems and best agricultural practices on food safety.
Attendance figures were high [...]
05 June 2021
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Azerbaijan’s World Food Safety Day campaign has expanded
The Food Safety Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan (AFSA), together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Azerbaijan, continues its series of promotional events, following its initial awareness-raising initiative in food outlets across the country.
As part of the ongoing efforts, Azerbaijani officials recorded a series of video addresses. AFSA Chairman, Goshgar Tahmazli, recorded a message in which he emphasized the importance of food safety and then handed over to the head of the FAO [...]
05 June 2021
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“Let’s get involved!” - for World Food Safety Day, Caribbean nations are told they can do more on the international stage
- by Renata Clarke, Subregional Coordinator, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The food in our supermarkets and our open markets come from numerous countries, and in the case of processed foods, each of the ingredients may themselves from come different countries. It is indeed, a global food web that keeps us fed. While we generally know very little about the people who produce, handle and process the food on the shelves of our supermarkets, for the most part, we [...]
05 June 2021
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Kenya will host radio and TV shows, podcasts and webinar for World Food Safety Day
Kenya has pulled together a multi-stakeholder committee to organize a series of media events for World Food Safety Day this year. The committee, which includes relevant ministry representatives as well as representatives from the private sector and consumer organizations, has put together a series of events “carrying messages on key food safety aspects, which includes antimicrobial resistance, food contaminants, pesticide residues and residues of veterinary drugs in food,” according to the Codex Contact Point, Maryann Kindiki.
“The level of safety of [...]
05 June 2021
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Food quality manager in Iran to use Instagram to promote World Food Safety Day
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ms F D Nassiri, a food quality manager with 12 years’ experience, has decided to conduct a solo food safety campaign for World Food Safety Day. Please support her efforts by following her Farsi-language food safety posts and advice at @foodsafetybyfdn !!
05 June 2021
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