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Promote Safe Food in Markets through INFOSAN
For the celebration of this second World Food Safety Day, FAO and WHO have decided to raise awareness about the importance of the provision of safe food in markets through the International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN). In this context, the INFOSAN Secretariat organized in May three webinars (English, French and Spanish) for the members of the network to present the topic detailing what everyone can do to improve food safety in markets.
The webinars were attended by 245 INFOSAN members and [...]
21 May 2020
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China National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment to celebrate World Food Safety Day
China National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA) will celebrate the second World Food Safety Day (WFSD) in various publicity campaigns on 7 June 2020.
The major initiatives planned for the Day include online interactive games, popular science animation videos, popular science lecture videos, popular science picture books and flyers that depict a food safety topic or issue. These initiatives will focus on raising awareness towards food safety among consumers and implementing "food safety, everybody’s business" as the theme of [...]
20 May 2020
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Webinar with Uganda highlights the importance of participation in Codex work
The current COVID-19 crisis has created an unprecedented change in how we think about and approach work, leisure, and life in general. Technologies are playing a crucial role in keeping our society functional in a time of lockdowns and quarantines. Codex Members and Observers had to adapt quickly to the new environment, implementing the use of online tools to actively participate in Codex work and ensure consumer health.
The Codex Secretariat has held training sessions in different regions and regularly showcases [...]
19 May 2020
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GFSI observes World Food Safety Day: 5 days, 5 videos, 5 calls to action!
The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) is in full gear, promoting this year's World Food Safety Day campaign among its community as a key moment to raise awareness and urge action. GFSI’s own plans to observe World Food Safety Day: 5 days, 5 videos, 5 calls to action! In the week leading up to 7 June, GFSI will post a brief video every day, each addressing one of the 5 calls to action. They invite your engagement throughout the campaign for World Food Safety Day [...]
15 May 2020
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Codex and the pandemic - strategic challenges and opportunities
Raj Rajasekar, Senior Programme Manager, Ministry for Primary Industries - New Zealand.
The Executive Committee informal virtual meeting held on 12 May 2020 provided a timely opportunity to reflect on the impact of the current pandemic on the work of Codex and some of the strategic challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. COVID-19 has spread rapidly across the world since the beginning of the year has had a huge impact on the work of Codex and many other multilateral institutions. The [...]
15 May 2020
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Codex Euro Region responds to the challenge of cancelled meetings
If you review the history of Codex committees since 1963 there are occasional gaps in the meeting schedule and most of these in the early years of Codex as the programme gradually developed and expanded. Some committees do not meet every year and so the average number of sessions through the 1970s, 80s, 90s and up to the present day has grown from less than 10 in any calendar year up to 20 in 2019.
What then to make of the [...]
13 May 2020
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América Latina y el Caribe es pionera en nuevas formas de trabajar en el Codex
En octubre de 2019, la 21.ª reunión del Comité Coordinador FAO/OMS para América Latina y el Caribe (CCLAC) fue interrumpida después de solo dos días y medio de discusiones a consecuencia de las manifestaciones que estaban teniendo lugar en Santiago de Chile y que obligaron a los anfitriones a suspender la reunión. La región acordó continuar trabajando electrónicamente para completar el programa. Este trabajo ha culminado en la celebración de una reunión en línea para la aprobación del informe que [...]
11 May 2020
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COVID-19 likely to cause cancellation of a physical meeting of 43rd Codex Commission
The Chairperson of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, Guilherme da Costa, Brazil, has written to FAO suggesting the cancellation of the 43rd Codex Alimentarius Commission session planned for July 2020 in Rome and to explore the opportunity to hold an online Executive Committee session to ensure that standard setting work can continue.
In the communication, Da Costa expresses his concern that expert delegations will not be able to gather in Rome for the Commission not only due to global travel restrictions currently [...]
06 May 2020
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Photo, poster and video contest opens in Asia and the Pacific
Anyone in the region under 30 years old can enter the contest called ‘Be young, be food-safe, be heard’. The FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific is calling for submissions of photos or posters that depict a food safety topic or issue that occurs at any point in the food supply chain. Video entries should address a food safety issue that participants face in their daily lives, revealing the habits, practices, behaviours or norms that cause the issue [...]
30 April 2020
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Protección de la cadena de suministro de alimentos frente a la enfermedad por coronavirus
En tiempos de autoaislamiento y cuarentena, todos dependemos más que nunca de una cadena de suministro de alimentos segura y eficiente para garantizar la disponibilidad de alimentos en todos los hogares. Puesto que la adquisición de alimentos en tiendas y mercados ahora resulta más difícil para los consumidores debido a las medidas para reducir el contacto y evitar la propagación de persona a persona del coronavirus, los gobiernos están haciendo todo lo posible para que los alimentos sigan estando disponibles [...]
24 April 2020
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