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 [...]

This year for World Food Safety Day, Spanish food safety consultancy Veraliment will team up with the communications company Atrevia and representatives of their food and drink “communication hub” La Batidora for an event on how "Food standards save lives". The event will focus on food standards, how to communicate about them, the actors involved and how to continue to evolve towards greater awareness. According to Veraliment event organizers, there is no doubt that standards help save lives, but the real [...]

The University of the Witwatersrand will be hosting food safety awareness week as part of the World Food Safety Day commemoration this year. The celebration will be undertaken for a period of five days, starting from 5 June 2023 and running to 9 June 2023. Activities will include food safety information stalls to be stationed around campus, where food safety quizzes and information sessions will be held with students and staff. On 9 June 2023, the University will be hosting World [...]

¡Bienvenido al Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos en América Latina y el Caribe 2023! [See English below] En 2023, por tercer año consecutivo, las organizaciones internacionales y regionales CCLAC, IICA, FAO, OIRSA y OPS/PANAFTOSA se unen para celebrar el Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos (DMIA) y enfatizar la importancia de la inocuidad de los alimentos para una mejor salud. Para su celebración, se realizarán dos actividades. Un webinario en el que participarán diferentes expertos de la región, [...]

In Diamniadio, Senegal, the AFRICA MiTH forum will celebrate World Food Safety Day on 5 June in their “gastronomy pavilion” with the message that promoting food safety can change things: “it is everyone’s business”. The event will seek to increase public awareness about food safety and encourage people to act to prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks, thus contributing to food security, human health, economic prosperity, agricultural production, access to markets, tourism and sustainable production, according to organizers. The day of activities [...]

The Private University of the Peninsula (UPP) of the City of Mérida Yucatán together with the School of Nutrition will celebrate World Food Safety Day. The programme includes a series of activities devised by the nutritionist and teacher Luis Enrique Manzanero, who will carry out a commemorative day for students of the Bachelor of Nutrition. The first activity is a conference for future nutrition professionals. This talk is called "The importance of food safety and food standards for the nutrition professional" and [...]

A team of Food Professionals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has planned a World Food Safety Day-related symposium in the three cities: Jeddah, Riyadh and Khobar. This event will be the second of its kind in the Kingdom and will attract food professionals from the industry, academia and regulatory bodies. The first day will be a conference where six speakers will be speaking on food safety-related regional matters. On day 2 there will be four workshops covering food standards, food defence, food fraud and traceability modules.  [...]

The FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and WHO Regional Offices of the World Health Organization for South-East Asia and the Western Pacific are jointly organizing a World Food Safety Day webinar on 1 June.  The webinar will focus on the World Food Safety Day theme, Food standards save lives, with the aim of highlighting the importance of food standards “from farm to fork”. In recognition of the 60th anniversary of the Codex Alimentarius Commission this year, Sanjay Dave, [...]