A team of Food Professionals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has planned World Food Safety Day related symposium in the three cities, Jeddah, Riyadh and Dammam. This event will be the first of its kind in the Kingdom and attracting food professional from the industry, academia and local regulatory bodies. The event will be free of cost to enrol and attend. The symposia will start at 0900 hours and finish at 1600 hours as it is a full day event. There will be [...]

Italy’s Scientific Society for Evidence on Environment, Food and Workplace Safety (UNPISI ATS) is organizing a World Food Safety Day webinar on the subject of “Mushrooms: food safety and supplements”. The event aims to raise awareness about the importance of food safety to everyone. Edible mushrooms can be a source of carbohydrates, proteins, minerals and vitamins, including calcium, iron, manganese, selenium, B vitamins and folates. And in recent years, research has shown that some fungal species have other beneficial properties: since [...]

The Barcelona Food Safety Forum (Barcelona Seguridad Alimentaria - BSA) will celebrate World Food Safety Day this year in a morning of presentations and round table discussions at the Barcelona School of Management in Barcelona on 7 June. The event will concentrate on issues of alternative sources of protein with a talk from Massimo Castellari, a researcher from the Government of Catalunya’s Agri-Food Research and Technology Institute (IRTA) on the “present and future of sustainable protein production”. A series of round [...]

South Africa’s Food Safety Summit 2022 was launched on the same day as the launch of World Food Safety Day, with a programme tailored to requests from former attendees and with the message that “‘Local is lekker*’ but we are part of the global village, so we will hear from our international colleagues too!”  The virtual event will take place on 7 and 8 June and will include several panel discussions with experts in their fields.  According to the organizers, Anelich Consulting [...]

Ecuadorian food consulting firm, Estrategia, is organizing a World Food Safety Day symposium entitled “Food symposium for manufacturing and export (Simposio Alimentario para la Fabricación y Exportación (SAFE)”. The full-day event on 7 June will include speakers presenting subjects such as Microbial tests for food safety controls HACCP in the food industry Innovation, design and management of new food microbiology products Safety in agricultural practices Requirements for the export of food Microplastics as emerging contaminants in food Integrated pest management versus safety Experimental design in the food area Illnesses transmitted [...]

The Agrifood Quality department at Universidad Ducens in Mexico is hosting a Facebook live discussion for World Food Safety Day, in collaboration with the Jesús Oviedo Pérez Technological School Foundation. International HACCP Alliance Lead Instructor and Agrifood quality expert, David A. Delgado Herrera will be joined by guests from Uruguay and Colombia’s Technological School Foundation of Neiva. Date & time: 7 June, 18:00 Mexico time (8 June 03:00 CET) Read more: https://universidadducens.edu.mx/noticias/dia-mundial-de-la-inocuidad-de-alimentos-2022/ Join the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/418079483095076  

A World Food Safety Day Facebook live event has been organized by the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina in Peru. The 7 June symposium will last from 17:00-21:30 local time (midnight to 04:30 CET on 7 June) and is aimed primarily at students, graduates, technicians, professionals and any interested members of the public who want to learn more about the mandatory safety system in Peru. The programme involves contributors from the public and private sectors and academia, with consumers represented by [...]

A World Food Safety Day 2022 webinar will be hosted by Japan’s Food Safety Management Association (JFSM) on 7 June “to provide an opportunity to think about food safety and to have a dialogue to ensure the delivery of safe food”. Under JFSM’s slogan, “safe food for everyone, everywhere”,the event will be split into two sessions. The first session will start with introductory remarks from the Directors of the Food Manufacturing Division and the Food Business Conduct Office, both at Japan’s [...]

As part of this year’s World Food Safety Day celebrations, the World Health Organization (WHO), together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), hosted a social media live Question-and-Answer (Q&A) event for the public on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. WHO Scientist, Simone Moraes Raszl, and Jeffrey LeJeune, FAO Food Safety Officer, discussed key facts about food safety and debunked some popular myths on Monday, 6 June 2022. The event was moderated by WHO Communications officer Yanawit [...]

World Food Safety Day was observed in the Asia Pacific region on 3 June 2022 through a webinar organized jointly by FAO, UNEP, WFP, WHO and WOAH. The theme of the webinar was “Multisectoral action needed to raise awareness and promote action on food safety’’. The event highlighted the importance of food safety within the larger context of food systems and particularly with reference to the achievement of SDGs 2, 3, 12  and 17. It then homed in on the [...]