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#AskESFA Twitter Q&A explores shared responsibility of food safety
A live Twitter Q&A hosted by the European Food Safety Authority in collaboration with the Codex Alimentarius Commission answered questions about the #OneHealth approach, sustainable #foodsystems and the shared responsibility of #foodsafety.
Bernhard Url, Executive Director EFSA teamed up with Tom Heilandt, Codex Secretary to tackle a range of challenging food safety issues that you can read about by following the Twitter thread below:
EFSA WFSD Twitter Q&A
09 June 2020
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Vice President of India shows support for World Food Safety Day on social media
In support of the 2nd celebration of the World Food Safety Day the official twitter account of the Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu ran a a series of messages underlining the need to create awareness of foodbourne diseases and stressing how all those responsible along the food chain should work to ensure food is safe, healthy and nutritious.
On this World Food Safety Day,I call upon all stakeholders – Producers,Vendors,Consumers &Governmentsto ensure that the food we consume is safe, [...]
09 June 2020
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An avatar unveiled in Brazil for World Food Safety Day
A 7 June 2020 World Food Safety Day campaign delivered many communication and dissemination tools, enabling several companies in the food supply chain, open during the pandemic, to share the message in a clear and playful way.
An example of this is demonstrated by the activities coordinated by the Dr Adriana Abud, who works together with other professionals specialized in Safety Food to promote the Culture of Food Safety in companies. For 30 days, several calls were made, materials were sent [...]
09 June 2020
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Food safety: a fundamental aspect of public policies
On June 8, the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Commerce (MEIC) of Costa Rica, with the technical collaboration of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) held the web seminar "Sustainable Production and its Relation to Food Safety". The webinar was also attended by the Chairperson of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, Guilherme da Costa Jr and by several panellists representing different institutions and entities of the public and private sector.
Guilherme da Costa and Luìsa Dìaz
The Minister of Economy, Industry [...]
09 June 2020
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Impact de la COVID-19 en Afrique - podcast avec Blaise Ouattara, FAO
Blaise Ouattara, responsable de la sécurité sanitaire et qualité des aliments au bureau régional de la FAO pour l'Afrique, répond aux questions d’une journaliste de RFI pour parler de l’impact de la COVID-19 sur la sécurité sanitaire des aliments et les défis à relever. Il explique également les effets positifs de la pandémie, notamment au niveau des mesures d’hygiène et souligne l’importance de pratiquer les Cinq clefs de l’OMS pour des aliments plus sûrs.
Vous pouvez écouter le podcast sur : http://rfi.my/61Kl.W [...]
09 June 2020
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Join the webinar Food Safety, Everyone’s Business: The India Experience June 10, 2020 | 11am - noon EST
Martien van Nieuwkoop, Global Director of Agriculture and Food Global Practice, World Bank will join Pawan Agarwal, Special Secretary, Logistics, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and previously the CEO of the Food Safety and Standards Authority India to talk about India’s experience with improving food safety. The discussion will be moderated by Lystra N. Antoine, CEO of the Global Food Safety Partnership.
Speakers
Pawan Kumar Agarwal
Beginning his civil service career in 1985 as an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) [...]
09 June 2020
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FAO and WHO teaming up for World Food Safety Day in Tanzania
Fred Kafeero, FAO Representative to Tanzania and Tigest Ketsela Mengestu, the WHO representative report from Tanzania on how important food safety is in the country.
Kafeero highlights the role street vendors play and FAO's work to ensure their products are safe and nutritious, while Tigest Ketsela Mengestu reinforces the World Food Safety Day key message that food safety is everyone's business if we are to contribute positively to public health, trade, employment and poverty alleviation.
08 June 2020
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University POLITEHNICA Timisoara, Romania holds poster competition
The Faculty of Industrial Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, University POLITEHNICA Timisoara, Romania is joining the WHO and FAO campaign on World Food Safety Day by organizing the Youth and Food Safety Competition. Because the day is 7th of June, 7 themes on food chain components that greatly impact food safety are proposed to middle school, high school and college students for a poster presentation.
The aim is to raise awareness on food safety importance, to inform and to involve more and [...]
08 June 2020
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Costa Rica Vice-President relays World Food Safety Day greetings in two videos
For the second World Food Safety Day, H.E. Epsy Campbell Barr, Vice-President of the Republic of Costa Rica, recorded two video messages, one in Spanish and another in English, to convey commemorative greetings to all. As the original sponsor of the resolution to establish a UN day dedicated to food safety, Costa Rica is committed to promoting the production, consumption and trade of safe food given its importance to health, well-being and livelihoods.
In the video, the Vice-President calls on the international community to [...]
07 June 2020
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Tunisie / Journée Internationale de la sécurité sanitaire des aliments – 2020
La journée Internationale de la Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments est célébrée chaque année par l'Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) en coopération avec l'Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO), dans le but de mieux sensibiliser sur la sécurité sanitaire des aliments dans le monde et de soutenir les efforts des autorités nationales dans ce domaine. La thématique de cette année est « La sécurité sanitaire des aliments, c’est l’affaire de tous ».
Les autorités Tunisiennes œuvrent depuis longtemps pour développer [...]
07 June 2020
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