India’s young food safety ambassador has recorded a video message in line with this year’s World Food Safety Day theme, “food safety: prepare for the unexpected”. Ojasvini Naik said in her message: “If it is not safe, it is not food but sometimes foodborne illnesses and diseases can be caused due to unexpected events.” For that reason, the young food safety advocate said, we all need to be prepared for the unexpected. She goes on to offer some food safety tips we [...]

In celebration of this year’s World Food Safety Day, Codex has published a “case study” showing how one country used Codex texts to resolve a food safety outbreak. In line with this year’s World Food Safety Day theme, “food safety: prepare for the unexpected,” the story recounts how Honduras worked with the FAO/WHO International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN) and food safety authorities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to identify the source of an outbreak of [...]

Join us on this special occasion to learn about best practices in food labelling and how it can make a difference in protecting consumer health. Discover how proper labelling can prevent risks and promote safe eating. Register now and join the conversation about the importance of food safety in our free webinar "Food Safety: Usefulness of Food Labelling" on World Food Safety Day 2024! We will wait for you! Date: 6 June 2024Time: 15:00 Panama (22:00 CEST)Link: WFSD 2024 - COPCYTA Read more World [...]

The Ministry of Commerce and Industries, headquarters of the National Office of the Codex Alimentarius Panama, Contact Point and Executive Secretariat, in coordination with the General Directorate of Standards and Industrial Technology and the National Accreditation Council, cordially invites you to participate in the celebration of World Food Safety Day and World Accreditation Day 2024. Get ready to live a unique experience! This year, in Panama, we celebrate Food Safety Day together with World Accreditation Day. We will highlight the vital [...]

By KEMBOU Etienne, Technical Officer Food Safety and Nutrition, WHO Multi-Country Assignment Teams (MCAT);Dr LAOUALI ABDOU Aissatou and RABO Souleymane, Food Safety and Nutrition Team WHO Country Office Niger;DIOFFO Salou, Codex Contact Point, Ministry of Public Health, Population and Social Affairs Niger As a prelude to the commemoration of World Food Safety Day 2024, thirty people, including representatives of administrative sectors, Civil Society Organizations, technical and financial partners and academics, were briefed on the organization, institutional structure, functioning, roles and [...]

For the fourth consecutive year, this 2024, the Regional Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO RLC), the Pan American Health Organization (WHO/PAHO-PANAFTOSA), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the International Regional Organization for Plant and Animal Health (OIRSA) and Ecuador as Chair of the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (CCLAC), join forces to celebrate World Food Safety Day  with a 1-day virtual seminar with the objective of bringing [...]

The Ministry of Health of Peru (MINSA), through the General Directorate of Environmental Health and Food Safety (DIGESA) and together with the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, through the National Agrarian Health Service of Peru (SENASA), as well as the Ministry of Production, through the National Fisheries Health Agency (SANIPES), have organized an “Educational Day for World Food Safety Day in Peru.” The event will take place on June 4 and 5, in person and virtually through the Zoom Platform [...]

The Polish initiative, Foodfakty, will celebrate World Food Safety Day, for the fourth year this year. The 2024 event will be held under the theme "be prepared for the unexpected. The theme emphasizes the importance of being prepared for food safety-related events, regardless of their severity. Food incidents can occur due to mistakes, inadequate controls, fraud, or natural events. Being ready to handle them requires dedicated and coordinated efforts from policymakers, food safety authorities, farmers, and especially food business operators, all [...]

The National Food Safety Authority (NFSA) of the Arab Republic of Egypt commemorated the sixth World Food Safety Day this year in on 29 and 30 May. As part of NFSA efforts to be active and collaborative on a regional level, the event marked the NFSA’s launch of its Egyptian Global Food Safety Symposium (EGFoSS) in the presence of H.H Ali Meselhy, Minister of Supply and experts and industry professionals in the field of food safety and agricultural industries from [...]

By: Maryann Kindiki- CCP, Kenya Kenya is in top gear in its preparations for World Food Safety Day 2024. On 30 April the national planning committee convened to engage media for a briefing on the theme of this year’s World Food Safety Day commemoration. This is aimed at guiding the media on the theme to ensure informed reporting. The planning committee is chaired by the Ministry of Health and comprises government agencies, academia and research, private sector alliances and associations, media and [...]