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, [...]

The countdown has begun to the fifth World Food Safety Day which will be celebrated all over the world on 7 June 2023. A glance at the World Food Safety Day web pages shows how Member Countries, Codex Observers, industry, academia and a host of consumer groups and other associations are joining together to raise awareness about the importance of safe food throughout the food chain. The theme for the 2023 World Food Safety Day is “Food Standards Save Lives”, chosen by [...]

A two-day Food Safety Summit will take place on 30 and 31 May this year in Johannesburg to commemorate World Food Safety Day. The event, organized by Anelich Consulting, will be followed by a week of podcasting to lead into World Food Safety Day itself. With a focus this year on people, speakers from around the world will discuss: The importance of the right culture in an organization, for success in food safety Why are we still getting the basics wrong and [...]

The NGO Je Mange Santé in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is planning a series of World Food Safety Day events over a 2-week period starting on 27 May. The organization is aiming to promote food standards and food safety for and within families that experience different forms of malnutrition and food-related diseases. Between Saturday 27 May and 3 June, in the city of Goma interviews will be carried out with people involved in food safety. These will go towards [...]

Four new 2-page leaflets have been published by FAO and WHO as part of the campaign for World Food Safety Day. The leaflets are aimed at producers in the aquaculture, dairy, fisheries and horticulture sectors and provide advice on best practices for ensuring the production of safe food. Links are provided in the leaflets to FAO and WHO publications that give more in-depth expert and scientific information on good practices in each sector. The leaflets also offer tips on how to promote [...]

As part of the Korea Food Safety Day campaign, the Food Regulatory Science Symposium was held on 10 May 2023 in Seoul, the Republic of Korea. The event, organized by the Korea Regulatory Science Research Center, highlighted the successful establishment of the new food regulatory science programme in universities and showcased its accomplishments. To foster human resources in the food bio-health area, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety initiated the food regulatory science support programme in 2021. Currently, three [...]

The Faculty of Food Industry Technology at the New Assiut Technological University in Assiut, Egypt will celebrate World Food Safety Day. The day includes opening and closing ceremonies and two sessions by Dr Gamal El-Sayed and Dr Ahmed El-Mesallamy, lecturers in food science and technology and food safety experts, who will carry out a commemorative day for students of the Faculty of Food Industry Technology. The first session is a 60-minute lecture that will introduce World Food Safety Day, discussing the 2023 [...]