News about World Food Safety Day
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The Global Food Safety Initiative - Delivering Impact for Safe Sustainable Food
After two years of online conferencing, the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) is an in-person event again this year. Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, over 900 delegates from across the food industry and the wider food safety community will discuss a wide-ranging array of food safety-related issues. The event sees GFSI “expand and strengthen its role, moving full speed ahead on its ‘Race to the Top’.”
Meeting from 29 to 31 March, the conference will look at “every facet of the food [...]
29 March 2022
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World Food Safety Day to focus on ‘safer food, better health’
The theme for this year’s World Food Safety Day, which will be celebrated on 7 June 2022, was announced on 7 March. The guide to World Food Safety Day explains more about the theme, “Safer food, better health,” and offers pointers on what the Day is about and how to get engaged.
The 2022 campaign will focus on the ways in which safer food can improve health and well-being, not only our physical health, but also that of animals and environment.. [...]
07 March 2022
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Tianjin University of Science and Technology (TUST) showcases science in honour of World Food Day and World Food Safety Day
In China, food is clearly a top priority – and food safety is seen as fundamental to the country, and to people’s livelihoods and wellbeing. As such, a series of activities were designed by authorities in China to promote public understanding of relevant issues, in recognition of both World Food Day in October 2021 and World Food Safety Day, which was celebrated on 7 June.
At Tianjin University of Science and Technology (TUST), members of the faculty of the College of [...]
20 October 2021
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World Food Safety Day report 2021 – an overview of festivity and creativity
Over 300 events and activities were organized in at least 90 countries to celebrate World Food Safety Day this year. The creative, informative and inclusive ways in which government authorities, food chain actors, consumers, academics and others worked to promote food safety have been captured in a 24-page report. This report, now available in all six official UN languages, was launched during a 24-hour ‘Tweet-a-thon for food safety’ led by the Codex Alimentarius Twitter account, @FAOWHOCodex, on 7 September.
In hourly [...]
08 September 2021
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Join the Tweet-a-thon for food safety on 7 September 2021
A 24-hour ‘Tweet-a-thon for food safety’ will be held on 7 September, during which the report documenting World Food Safety Day 2021 in all six official UN languages will be launched.
Follow the Codex Twitter account, @FAOWHOCodex, for this virtual conversation starting at midnight (00:00 CET on 7 September 2021).
Webinars, videos, attention-grabbing GIFs and artistic images created by international organizations, governments, businesses, non-governmental organizations and individuals involved and inspired millions of people across the world. Now, three months later, this day [...]
02 September 2021
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Armenia takes a comprehensive approach to World Food Safety Day
In 2021, Armenia’s Food Safety Inspection Body (FSIB) initiated two World Food Safety Day events: A webinar on 4 June that focused on national food safety issues and, a conference on 7-8 June in Aghveran with financial support of the Strategic Development Agency in collaboration with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Armenia (SDC).
The virtual event included a presentation from Mary Kenny, FAO’s food safety and consumer protection officer and Peter Hoejskov, a technical officer from the WHO [...]
26 August 2021
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The Ministry of Public Health of Qatar organizes several World Food Safety Day activities
The Ministry of Public Health of Qatar marked World Food Safety Day, which falls on 7 June, under the theme “Safe food today for a healthy tomorrow", and slogan "Food Safety is Everyone’s Responsibility."
On this occasion, the Ministry organized a number of activities and events, including:
Virtual Workshops
Three workshops targeting family-run businesses over three days on:
Introduction to Food Safety -Types of food contamination and sources
Types of bacteria and where they’re found in food (e.g. Salmonella, E. Coli , Staphylococcus, Listeria and [...]
12 August 2021
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Sweet success for cocoa processors in World Food Safety Day quiz!
The Afrotropic Cocoa Processing company based in Accra, Ghana, exports its cocoa products to many countries in Europe, the Americas and Asia. Here, as for every other food outlet, food safety is of paramount importance and the company held a food safety quiz to celebrate World Food Safety Day this year and to remind employees of their food safety responsibilities.
Prizes were awarded to the teams that came 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the quiz, which was both fun and informative. [...]
11 August 2021
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Jollibee Group marks World Food Safety Day and recognizes food safety heroes
The Jollibee Foods Corp. (Jollibee Group) organized a series of insightful activities centered around the “5 Calls to Action of World Food Safety Day” from June 1-10, 2021. Representatives from different regions, including restaurant managers, operation and support teams, and top executives participated in the activities, which were designed to help build capacities and highlight the importance of food safety throughout the organization.
Under the theme “Ensure it’s Safe”, SGS Global Customised Solutions Manager Evangelia Komitopoulou, PhD spoke about “Emerging Trends [...]
30 July 2021
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METRO supermarkets celebrate World Food Safety Day with staff training and consumer awareness initiatives
As part of the global commemorations, METRO Pakistan celebrated World Food Safety Day, under this year’s theme, ‘Safe food today for a healthy tomorrow’, at its stores all over the country by building awareness on food safety through internal and external communication, organizing compliance competition in store and an awareness session on food safety and hygiene protocols for staff.
On World Food Safety Day, METRO Pakistan arranged several activities focusing food safety practices improvement or awareness among its employees and customers [...]
22 July 2021