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Ghana FDA bolsters food safety education and awareness
In Ghana, the Food and Drug Authority (FDA) led a celebration of World Food Safety Day with food safety public education in the week running up to 7 June 2020. Food safety information was shared on various local radio and TV stations across the country and on the FDA social media platform. The celebration culminated on 8 June with a webinar on the topic 'The Food Safety Situation in Our Food Business Environment during this COVID-19 period'. A recording of the webinar [...]
01 July 2020
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Food safety is everyone’s responsibility and everyone’s business in the Near East
Abdessalam Ould Ahmed, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for the Near East and North Africa, and Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, issued a joint statement on 7 June 2020 on the occasion of World Food Safety Day. The statement highlighted the crucial role of safe food in promoting health and ending hunger.
"Without universal access to safe food, the 2030 Agenda will be impossible to achieve. Everyone has the right to safe, nutritious and sufficient [...]
26 June 2020
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Food Safety in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
Food safety touches every aspect of our food system and defines how secure, sustainable, resilient, and nourishing a food supply can be when stressed. To mark the second annual World Food Safety Day, FAO North America convened a webinar exploring how to maintain safe supply chains during a pandemic and minimize future disruptions to build more resilient food systems and ensure food security on 12 June. Hank Cardello, Senior Fellow & Director, Food Policy Center, Hudson Institute moderated the expert discussion, [...]
26 June 2020
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Zimbabwe to commemorate World Food Safety Day with a webinar
Food safety is a shared responsibility. The Zimbabwe 2020 WFSD commemoration will bring together, through a webinar, all key players in the food system to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their operations, posed threats to food safety and how these threats are being managed. The stakeholders will also discuss what they are doing to ensure food safety in their work, the challenges they are facing and what support they require to ensure their efforts yield results.
The event will [...]
25 June 2020
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La soixante-dix-neuvième session du CCEXEC sera virtuelle / Confirmation de la première session en ligne d’un comité du Codex
Le Secrétaire du Codex Tom Heilandt a confirmé aujourd’hui qu’une réunion formelle du Codex sera organisée pour la première fois en ligne. Au terme de longues discussions avec la FAO et l’OMS, la tenue de la prochaine session en ligne a été proposée aux membres du Comité exécutif de la Commission du Codex Alimentarius, sous réserve d’approbation par la majorité des membres, qui a été obtenue. La soixante-dix-neuvième session du CCEXEC aura donc lieu en ligne les 13, 14, 17 et [...]
25 June 2020
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The Latin American and the Caribbean region comes together to keep Codex work active
Members from the Latin American and the Caribbean region met online on 17 June 2020 to discuss and share their views about Codex, the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and identify the best practices to carry on the work of committee ahead of the next session.
Diego Varela, Chile, Chairperson of the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (CCLAC), said that after working very actively on the follow-up to CCLAC21 through the Codex web forum, the countries of [...]
24 June 2020
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Message from Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region
On World Food Safety Day, WHO reiterates its commitment to supporting Member States in the Region to promote and capitalize on momentum to prevent, detect and manage the risk associated to the consumption of unsafe food. Through a message to countries, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh explains the progress made and the remaining challenges to tackle food safety. Based on the new, recently adopted Framework for Action on Food Safety, Dr Singh highlights the three priority areas for South-East Asia to sustain [...]
24 June 2020
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Sharing the responsibility for food safety in Indonesia
The Balai Besar POM (BBPOM) central office in Jayapura cannot work alone to guarantee food security in the province of Papua, it must work in synergy with other regional and cross-sector government offices. This suggestion was conveyed by one of the callers who joined the Interactive Dialogue "World Food Safety Day, Food Safety Joint Responsibility" at the RRI Jayapura on Tuesday 16 June 2020, which was carried out by teleconference. In an interactive dialogue guided by RRI Jayapura moderator Ida [...]
23 June 2020
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Honduras celebrates World Food Safety Day
For the second year, Honduras joins the celebration of World Food Safety Day on June 7th.
The objective of WFSD is to promote awareness and joint action between government sectors, producers and experts to prevent, detect and manage food-borne risks, thus contributing to improve human health, market access, tourism and sustainable development.
In Honduras, various government institutions such as the Servicio Nacional de Sanidad e Inocuidad Agroalimentaria (SENASA), la Secretaría de Desarrollo Económico (SDE), la Secretaría de Salud (SESAL), la Agencia de [...]
22 June 2020
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Deuxième Journée Internationale de la Sécurité Sanitaire des aliments au Burkina Faso
La sensibilisation sur la COVID-19 au cœur de la commémoration
Le comité national du Codex Alimentarius participe au combat de la riposte à la pandémie de COVID-19 en marge de la commémoration de la deuxième Journée Internationale de la Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments (JISSA) au Burkina Faso. L’enceinte de la société générale des viandes de Ouagadougou, l’une des unités modèle de vente et de distribution des produits carnés a servi de cadre au lancement des activités.
En partenariat avec l’Organisation des Nations [...]
19 June 2020
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