The Salvadoran Agency for Technical Regulation (OSARTEC) as Contact Point for the Codex Alimentarius in El Salvador has coordinated with the national academic sector to raise awareness about food safety. The efforts involved the development of multimedia content in celebration of World Food Safety Day, which highlighted the importance of food safety and its benefits at the national level. More than fifty students from the following universities participated in this activity. All these students are pursuing food careers. They shared the [...]

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), will host a social media live Q&A event for the public on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The event speakers, WHO Scientist, Simone Moraes Raszl, and Jeffrey LeJeune, FAO Food Safety Officer, will answer questions around this year’s theme of “safer food, better health”. Tune in to FAO and WHO social media channels on Monday 6 [...]

To raise awareness of World Food Safety Day 2022, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) will share a number of images on its Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram pages. The images feature quotes from a range of stakeholders within the Irish food industry from customers to inspectors to interest groups to food businesses. Each stakeholder is answering the question ‘What does food safety mean to me’? “This campaign showcases the passionate, innovative approach that is taken to food safety in Ireland,” the organizers explained. [...]

The Bahamas Agricultural Health and Food Safety Authority (BAHFSA) is planning World Food Safety Day events starting on 4 June at the Marathon Mall. The local event will involve a showcase of poster finalists, free “health checks”, a food safety display and “prizes and surprises”. This all-day event is the first of a series of events planned to raise awareness about food safety in the Bahamas, leading up to World Food Safety Day itself on 7 June. Date & time: 4 June [...]

Food safety is everyone’s business, and to underline this fact, new information leaflets have been released in advance of this year’s World Food Safety Day. The leaflets examine five settings where food is sold or consumed: workplaces, traditional food markets, street food vending, schools and daycare centres and the home. Each leaflet explains why food safety is important in that environment and then explains easy ways for authorities, producers and consumers to keep food safe. They all end with an idea [...]

World Food safety Day will be celebrated on 7 June 2022. Codex Secretary Tom Heilandt spoke to the FAO liason office in Brussels about the theme for this year's celebration - safer food better health - and about a range of issues on his agenda in Codex.   Read the full article here.

For the World Food Safety Day, which will be celebrated on 7 June 2022, a number of different activities, including a dance challenge on food safety, will be held in Mongolia. As part of this celebration, FAO Mongolia is organizing a webinar on foodborne antimicrobial resistance (AMR), called “Foodborne AMR and One Health”. The purpose of the webinar is to provide updated information on food safety, AMR, Codex standards and One Health strategies, simultaneously addressing the health of people, animals, plants [...]

For World Food Safety Day this year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) will team up with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) for a webinar for Asia and the Pacific on the theme of “Multisectoral actions for food safety in the Asia-Pacific Region”. Date & time: 2 June, 09:30 New Delhi, 11:00 Bangkok, 12:00 Manila, 13:00 Tokyo [...]

The Henan Zhonglu Import and Export Trading Company will hold a Douyin video contest for World Food Safety, with prizes available for the winners. Douyin is a Chinese language short-form mobile video platform. The contest aims to encourage collaboration in integrating food safety practices into people’s daily lives, and to deepen public understanding of food safety. Contest rules are -        One submission per Douyin account. No more than 1 000 submissions can be received. -        Submit a video between 1 and 10 June -        Priority [...]

The Cabinet d’Expertise Six Sigma in Chad is to celebrate World Food Safety Day over the first week of June and has called upon local influencers to promote the planned events across social media. Between 1 and 7 June, a series of “tasting” sessions will be hosted by restaurants around the capital city, N’Djamena, which will be accompanied by relevant food safety messages. Around 250 people have been invited to events on 7 June, which have been scheduled to take place at [...]