The Japan Food Safety Management Association (JFSM) will hold an online event for World Food Safety Day on 7 June “as a place to learn and share food safety with everyone involved in the food chain”. The event will hear from speakers on a variety of food safety topics, including a Codex Alimentarius Commission 60th Anniversary Lecture “Codex Standards and Risk Assessment” from Professor Hajime Toyofuku from the Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Yamaguchi University. Date:    7 JuneTime:    14.00–17.00 hours (local [...]

The Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT) is jointly organizing a World Food Safety Day event with the Society of Fisheries Technologists India (SOFTI), the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and the India Section of Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC International). The hybrid national technical workshop will take place on 7 and 8 June in Cochin, Kerala, India and online with the theme “Indian perspective on food safety, security and standards”. Abstracts [...]

The Bangladesh Food Safety Foundation is planning a hybrid seminar jointly with other organizations on this year’s World Food Safety Day theme. To support and promote the event, the foundation will also produce an e-poster, e-flyer and other promotional materials to be distributed via email to food businesses & their associations print & electronic media apex chamber bodies, Members and district chambers of commerce. a customized e-poster, and e-flyer that will be uploaded onto a few non-professional and professional associations’ Facebook pages. Read more The Bangladesh Food Safety Foundation website

Denmark’s Agriculture and Food Council, together with Food Nation, the government’s “gateway to information about the Danish agriculture and the food sector” will celebrate World Food Safety Day this year to discuss how the Danish food sector can “continuously assess, test and innovate their products”. The online event is aimed at “key people within food safety, innovation and marketing”. Date:    7 JuneTime:    10.00–12.00 hours (CEST) Read more RegistrationSend an email with name, title and company to: [email protected] marked "World Food Safety Day"

Hospital caterers in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will be celebrating World Food Safety Day this year in a food safety study day that will take place in the town of Basingstoke in England. The local “Wessex” branch of the national Hospital Caterers Association is organizing a physical day-long event for members and non-members to discuss “this fundamental and important aspect of patient, staff and customer feeding”.  There will be a series of speakers plus a panel [...]

The agro-industrial technical institute, ADRIA, in France is planning for its 20th annual agrifood industry (IAA) quality managers meeting, le Rendez-vous des managers de la qualité en IAA, to fall on World Food Safety Day this year. The two-day event will take place on 7 and 8 June in Rennes and will afford participants the opportunity of discussing the latest developments in the field of quality management. Read more https://www.adria.tm.fr/

Today, 7 June, we celebrate the fifth World Food Safety Day with the theme “Food standards save lives”. The day is being promoted across social media channels using the hashtag #WorldFoodSafetyDay, and all over the world, individuals, NGOs, private companies, local and national governments and international organizations are hosting events and activities to take up the call to raise awareness on how to prevent, detect and manage foodborne illness. Four official FAO-hosted events will take place today at FAO in Rome, and [...]

In order to raise awareness on food safety issues among associates and the general population, the Association of Avocado Producers and Packers-Exporters of Mexico AC (APEAM AC), will organize its second World Food Safety Day Forum. The event is organized with the aim of commemorating, promoting, disseminating and emphasizing to associates the importance of safety in the avocado crop production system. Various topics will be addressed, such as sustainability, laboratory techniques for analysis of microorganisms, pesticide residues, "accreditation", food safety and [...]

In order to participate in the international drive to raise awareness on food safety, and as part of the celebration of World Food Safety Day, Group Réponse organizes an annual forum called the International Forum of Food Safety (FISSA) to inform, raise awareness and communicate on the importance of food safety in Benin. Health safety is everyone's business. FISSA 2023 will be held in hybrid mode (face-to-face and online) from June 6 to 10, 2023 at the Agence Territoriale de Développement [...]

On 7 June 2023 the world will celebrate the fifth United Nations World Food Safety Day and this year the theme is “food standards save lives”. A video will be launched in six languages to coincide with World Food Safety Day explaining what food safety standards are and why they matter. Standards and norms are all around us. They can be used to measure, to express quality and quantity or to calculate a level or grade. They provide certainty. They can, for [...]