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Danish food solutions to heighten global food quality and safety
Denmark are planning World Food Safety Day activites on and around June 7 with a focus on Danish food solutions to heighten global food quality and safety.
Denmark will also hold a webinar on June 8 for Danish exporting food companies where a panel including Esben Egede, Executive Director, Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, Søren Tinggaard, Vice President, Pork Export Strategy & Marketing, Danish Crown and Lise Walbom, CEO, Food Nation will explore how to use quality and food safety as [...]
27 May 2020
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Guatemala conmemora el Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos con un seminario web
Para celebrar el Día Mundial de la Seguridad de los Alimentos, Guatemala ha organizado un seminario web para informar sobre la importancia de las buenas prácticas en materia de inocuidad de los alimentos y su influencia en el comercio nacional e internacional.
El evento, organizado para el 10 de junio, de 09:00 a 11:00 horas (hora de Centroamérica), que tiene como objetivo reunir a los funcionarios del sector público y de la industria que participan en la producción y comercialización de [...]
27 May 2020
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Costa Rica / Webinar "Producción sostenible y su relación con la inocuidad de los alimentos"
Este año, en la segunda celebración del Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos (7 de junio de 2020), todos tenemos la oportunidad de reconocer a las personas que ayudan a mantener nuestros alimentos seguros. El objetivo de esta celebración es concientizar sobre el tema e instar a tomar acciones de parte de todos los actores para garantizar la inocuidad de los alimentos. Todos en la cadena de producción jugamos un papel importante que desempeñar para mantenerlos innocuos.
¡Participa de [...]
26 May 2020
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Food Safety Talk 5 June / No food security without food safety
To Commemorate the World Food Safety Day that falls on 7 June 2020, FoodBev International Consulting (Pty) Ltd invites you to join a Free Zoom Food Safety Talk entitled: No Food Security Without Food Safety.
Date: 5 June 2020
Time: 12h00-13h30 (GMT +2)
Platform: Zoom
The theme for this year is Food Safety, everyone’s business. A panel of experts drawn from industry and academia will each take time to present on different key issues and calls to action set out for the day by [...]
26 May 2020
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Czech Republic plans a series of World Food Safety Day publishing activities
Here are the planned activites for World Food Safety Day in the Czech Republic.
26 May 2020
The Ministry of Agriculture - Food Safety Department will publish a short article containing WFSD original key messages on www.bezpecnostpotravin.cz with refence to FAO and WHO activities; and promo materials on social media - Facebook, Twitter (following EFSA activities when key messages and promo materials (images) will be rolled out on social media in a pre-phase starting on 25 May 2020).
2 June 2020
The Ministry of [...]
25 May 2020
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Joint FAO/OIE/WFP/WHO food safety webinar - Food safety in the “new normal”
Have you noticed that you are now washing your hands more properly than the last year? It is an important yet unique opportunity on the second observance of World Food Safety Day that we all have a chance to reflect how our continuous and new food safety actions could fit into the “new normal” era.
Over the last few decades, a substantial amount of efforts have been made to improve our food safety systems in Asia and the Pacific. Consumers are more aware of food [...]
25 May 2020
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WFSD video / in Kuwait, food safety is everyone’s business
To celebrate World Food Safety Day (WFSD) the Codex Contact Point of Kuwait based in the Public Authority for Food and Nutrition (PAFN) has developed a video. In line with the 2020 WFSD theme of Food safety, everyone’s business the short film brings together the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the Ministry of Health, the Public Authority of Agricultural affairs and fisheries, PAFN itself - which is responsible for developing the national food safety policy, food laboratories, farmers, food business [...]
24 May 2020
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Italian food business setting standards to keep food flowing
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how large numbers of workers throughout the food industry supply chain are indeed operating on the frontline. They are vital to ensuring we all have enough to eat but potentially more at risk from the virus than those under lockdown unless hygiene and sanitation measures at their place of work are of the highest standard and clear instructions and guidelines for employees, regarding how to operate during the pandemic, are in place.
Italy was one of [...]
24 May 2020
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Suriname awareness campaign for World Food Safety Day 2020
The Government of Suriname is planning to run a food safety awareness campaign, calling upon decision makers, the private sector, civil society, and consumers to take action to keep food safe. The campaign will highlight the benefits of strengthening its food control system, in particular areas related to coverage of oversight and coordination. This initiative links up to the ongoing EU-funded FAO project called Suriname Agriculture Market Access Project.
The campaign will start on 1 June and end on 7 June 2020, which is World Food [...]
22 May 2020
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Cocoa processing facility in Ghana plans observance
For World Food Safety Day 2020, the Aftropic Cocoa Processing Company will highlight the importance of food safety among staff with a series of initiatives. The facility, based in Accra, Ghana, will:
Launch 10 golden rules on food safety;
Feature a pep talk at the beginning of every shift of workers (12 max), who will observe social distancing and wear masks;
Post the WHO/FAO World Food Safety Day posters on the facility to create more awareness; and
Share chocolate with every worker at lunch.
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21 May 2020
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