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World Food Safety Day / Our big dream of bringing safe and nutritious food to every home
By Codex Secretary Tom Heilandt
On 30 May 2020 7.22pm German time I was glued to my new quarantine TV watching the launch of the Space X DEMO-2 mission. I felt almost the same awe and excitement as I had in front of a much smaller black and white TV in 1969 when Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
I don’t remember what I was thinking in 1969 but now a lot of thoughts raced through my head: the first was selfish. [...]
07 June 2020
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Veterinary and agricultural science students to gather online to talk food safety
In a webinar on 7 June, the International Veterinary Students’ Association (IVSA) and the International Association of Students in Agricultural and Related Sciences (IAAS) will host an online event to celebrate World Food Safety Day on 7 June 2020. Alice Green, an FAO food safety officer, will be giving a brief presentation on the role of agricultural experts in promoting food safety from farm to fork.
Her talk will focus on the benefits of food safety – which include improved health, [...]
07 June 2020
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World Food Safety Day / Codex Vice Chairpersons
On the 2nd World Food Safety Day the Codex Vice Chairpersons share their messages.
Mariam Eid, Lebanon
The celebration of the World Food Safety 2020 take place in a moment when everyone's efforts are needed to continue and contribute to shaping the future of humanity. What the world faces today is directing attention to the Codex Alimentarius Commission which within the framework of its strategy can lead to a community with fewer food losses, less foodborne diseases, less poverty and less hunger [...]
07 June 2020
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Twitter chat on safe dining and safe takeout food - new date 11 June
NEW DATE
On Thursday 11 June, the International Food Information Council (IFIC) will host a Twitter chat in observance of World Food Safety Day. Anyone with a Twitter account can join the conversation, which will be led by @FoodInsight with the hashtags #WorldFoodSafetyDay and #WFSDChat and participation of @FAOWHOCodex, the Twitter account of the joint FAO-WHO food standards programme.
As the world slowly opens back up and lockdowns are lifted, people are looking for clear answers about how they can safely dine out—eating at restaurants, getting takeout [...]
07 June 2020
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En Ecuador la inocuidad de los alimentos es un asunto de todos
Con el tema “La inocuidad de alimentos, un asunto de todos”, este año la Agencia de Regulaciòn y Controlo Fito y Zoosanitario reconoce la labor de las personas que contribuyen a velar por la inocuidad de nuestros alimentos, está centrado en sensibilizar e instar a tomar medidas haciendo hincapié en lo que cada uno puede hacer para garantizar la inocuidad de los alimentos, tanto si cultiva, elabora, transporta, almacena, distribuye, vende, prepara, sirve o consume alimentos, usted desempeña una función [...]
07 June 2020
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Saudi Arabia celebrates World Food Safety Day
In commemoration of World Food Safety Day (WFSD), the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) is participating in the celebration of the second WFSD through a series of events and activities under the theme “Food safety, everyone's business”. These activities include number of webinars over two days, awareness infographics, clips, and participation in some TV programs to enhance food safety awareness.
Webinars (Arabic Language)
Webinar 1: Assuring Food Safety, 7th June 2020 (10:00 – 10:30 KSA time)
Webinar 2: Feed products safety, 7th June 2020 (11:00 – 11:30 KSA time)
Webinar 3: Pesticide residues in food, 8th June 2020 [...]
07 June 2020
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World Food Safety Day 7 June / Working together to make food safe
Guilherme da Costa, Chairperson Codex Alimentarius Commission
Today we are celebrating the second World Food Safety Day, but we are observing this under very different circumstances to its inauguration a short 12 months ago. At that time we were still able to come together do discuss the importance of food safety. I was able to meet colleagues and friends from many Member countries face-to-face at a World Food Safety Day Event in The United Nations, New York and advocate for food [...]
07 June 2020
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Facebook live event kicks off World Food Safety Day celebrations for FAO and WHO
In a wide-ranging discussion on food safety “from farm to table”, World Food Safety Day celebrations got underway on Friday 5 June, 2020 with a virtual event broadcast from WHO headquarters in Geneva, hosted by Pippa Haughton, WHO (left). The Facebook live guests were Sarah Cahill, Senior Food Standards Officer in the Codex Secretariat and Francesco Branca, WHO Director of Nutrition and Food Safety.
Several hundred thousand viewers from around the world on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube followed the event [...]
06 June 2020
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Luxembourg launches online quiz for World Food Safety Day
Luxembourg has launched an online quiz (www.secheriessen.lu) on food safety topics (from 3 until 14 June, available in French and Luxemburgish) to celebrate the World Food Safety Day edition 2020.
A press communication (in French) accompanied the launch of the quiz and shares the links to the EFSA website, to the new F2F strategy and to the results of the Eurobarometer 2019.
The press release was also published on the national food safety website using communication materials of the WHO and FAO campaign [...]
06 June 2020
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Food safety is everyone’s business “even yours and mine”
The words of Ojasvini Naik, at aged eight India’s youngest food safety ambassador and a young girl with both a passion and a mission, who is already a veteran of food safety messaging. At just aged 6 Ojasvini learnt through participating with her Mother in food safety training for food handlers that children her age carry the burden of foodborne disease with 125 000 deaths per year according to WHO.
2018 awards ceremony: Sanjay Dave (former Chairperson Codex Alimentarius Commission), Pawan [...]
06 June 2020
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