As part of their World Food Safety Day celebrations, the Codex Contact Point in Costa Rica has produced a video with comments from key actors in food safety issues. The video includes messages from Victoria Hernández, Costa Rica’s Minister for the Economy, Industry and Commerce, Oliver Cruz, Director of SENASA, Costa Rica’s National Animal Health Service, Oscar Acosta Director of the University of Costa Rica Centre of Science and Technology, CITA, Erick Ulate, President of Consumidores de Costa Rica and Andrea [...]

La Agencia de Regulación y Control Fito y Zoosanitario (Agrocalidad), la La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), la Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) y la Secretaria del Codex organizarán un chat en Twitter el 4 de junio para celebrar el Día Mundial de la Inocudiad de los Alimentos. Todos los que tengan una cuenta Twitter pueden unirse a la conversación, que será dirigida por @FAOWHOCodex en torno a los hashtags #WorldFoodSafetyDay [...]

In anticipation of the 7 June World Food Safety Day celebrations, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Food Programme (WFP) held a joint event this morning to explore and discuss the One Health approach to food safety. The event had an audience of nearly 400 participants from 69 countries in Zoom, plus 320 in YouTube. The [...]

This year in Poland, there are two major events taking place: the 5-day Food Fakty e-Forum and an awareness campaign from the country’s Agricultural and Food Quality Inspectorate. The Codex Contact Point in Poland is a key part in this awareness raising, having translated World Food Safety Day promotional materials into Polish and distributed them to all institutions with which they cooperate on a daily basis, be they governmental, non-governmental, research institutes, universities, industry or consumer associations. “We also keep [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has opened a space for a series of Health talks aimed at contributing to proposed Food Systems Summit Dialogues that have been advanced by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres - and World Food Safety Day events will make a key contribution to these discussions.  The Health talks are a response by WHO’s Department of Nutrition and Food Safety to the Secretary-General’s request for inclusive and wide-ranging discussions and debates in preparation for September’s Food Systems Summit, [...]

World Food Safety Day in the Asia and Pacific Region will be marked this year by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and World Food Program (WFP) in a joint regional food safety open event. The 3 June virtual event will focus on the “One Health” approach to food safety, which recognizes the connection between the health of people, animals and the [...]

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has announced that its next “Breakfast Bites” event on 3 June will mark World Food Safety Day, by taking on the topic of ‘How to manage food safety in your business.’ The FSAI holds regular informal meetings aimed specifically at advising small food businesses and the 3 June meeting, hosted by the FSAI’s Lisa O’Connor, will address issues around what a food safety management system is, why businesses should put one in place and [...]

منظمة الأغذية والزراعة، ومنظمة الصحة العالمية، وهيئة الدستور الغذائي تستضيف فعالية اليوم العالمي لسلامة الأغذية على الإنترنت، لمناقشة مفهوم "غذاء آمن اليوم لغدٍ مُفعم بالصحة" ستستضيف منظمة الأمم المتحدة للأغذية والزراعة، ومنظمة الصحة العالمية، وأمانة هيئة الدستور الغذائي في اليوم العالمي لسلامة الأغذية الذي سيُقام يوم 7 حزيران/ يونيو 2021 مناقشة عبر الانترنت مع كبيرتي العلماء، أسمهان الوافي وسوميا سواميناثان لتسليط الضوء على أهمية دور العلم في الحفاظ على سلامة الأغذية، الآن وفي المستقبل. وستتحدث العالمتان عن أهمية موضوع اليوم العالمي [...]

Earl Stewart Jr, Director of Planning and Research at the Jamaica Customs Agency will open a 2-hour online discussion on 2 June for World Food Safety Day, on the topic of ''What the Food Business Sector and Government Sector are doing to ensure our food is safe to eat.'' Two further topics will take apart the World Food Safety Day theme for this year: "The Present Actions of each Entity to ensure safe food now" and "Future Actions to ensure [...]

The South African Association for Food Science and Technology is planning a webinar to celebrate World Food Safety Day. The event will take place on 2 June at noon local time (10:00 GMT) with an exciting line up of speakers, including Professor Lucia Anelich, of Anelich Consulting food safety solutions, Susan Featherstone, CEO of SAAFoST and Jane Nock, Chief Technical Food Science Officer for in2food, South Africa. SAAFoST includes scientists, technologists and other professionals serving the food and allied industries in [...]