Events on the World Food Safety Day

Chadian authorities are planning a national event to celebrate World Food Safety Day. A full-day conference and broader media campaign are planned for 7 June, which event organizers, Cabinet d’Expertise Six Sigma, hope will connect with agri-food sector actors and with consumers on the importance of food safety. “This day will be an opportunity to raise public awareness and encourage people to take action to prevent, detect and manage foodborne [...]

India’s ‘Progress, Harmony and Development’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHD CCI), which is based in New Delhi, will host a 6-hour ‘virtual celebration’ of World Food Safety Day on 7 June. With sponsorship from a wide range of private sector parties, the event will explore a number of important food safety issues within the food industry, with an emphasis on the promotion of industry, trade and entrepreneurship. Date and time: 7 June [...]

Denmark’s branding consortium for the Danish agriculture and food sector, Food Nation is organizing a World Food Safety Day online event again this year, together with the Danish Agriculture and Food Council. Aimed at key people in food safety, innovation and marketing in Denmark, the event will take place on 7 June from 09.30-12.30, with the aim of providing an “insight into the latest knowledge in digitization, food safety culture [...]

Professor Parvez Haris, Professor of Biomedical Science at De Montfort University in Leicester, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK), will present a lecture on food safety issues related to rice for World Food Safety Day. Rice is an important food staple worldwide, but concerns have been raised in recent years regarding the high concentration of toxic chemicals in rice, including arsenic. Professor Haris and his team [...]

Food Nation will hold a Global Food Talk for World Food Safety Day on 7 June, 13:00-14:00 CEST with Denmark’s Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Rasmus Prehn, and leading high-level profiles from the Danish and international agriculture and food scene. Food safety saves lives. It is not only crucial to food security but also plays a vital role in reducing foodborne diseases. Numbers from the World Health Organization estimate that 600 [...]

"Costa Rica invites you to the Webinar" Safe food now for a healthy tomorrow "" to be held on June 7 at 9:00 am (CST, UTC-6) in commemoration of "World Food Safety Day." Panel No. 1. "The role of the intestinal microbiota in the advance towards safe and healthier foods" and panel No. 2. "Process of standardization and regulation of nanotechnology and nano materials as prevention of nanotoxicity" Instructions to participate: You [...]

The Federation of Food Science and Technology Associations (FEDALCYTA) in Spain will celebrate World Food Safety Day this year with two events. Quiz The first event, inspired by the World Food Safety Day slogan “Food safety is everyone’s business” will be a quiz aimed at educating young people about food safety. Disseminated across social media (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram) on World Food Safety Day itself, the quiz will involve “questions and curiosities [...]

The Italian National Association of Food Safety Professionals, UNPISI, is organizing a webinar for World Food Safety Day. The 2.5-hour event will be titled “Cyber food controls: the new frontiers of official controls” and it will take place on 7 June, at 14:30 CET (12:30 GMT). This webinar will focus on how food safety can be maintained within online food markets, which have seen a phenomenal increase in demand during [...]

The Faculty of Industrial Chemistry and Environmental Engineering within the Politehnica University of Timișoara is organizing three World Food Safety Day events over three days, from 7 to 9 June. The first event will name the winners of their “Youth and Food Safety Competition,” which is aimed at school and university students. Posters and videos (maximum 5 minutes) on different food safety themes (see categories here) can still be submitted up [...]

The Food and Agriculture Centre of Excellence at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) will concentrate on poultry for this year’s World Food Safety Day. In collaboration with the multi stakeholder initiative, Surakshit Khadya Abhiyan (SKA), the CII will run two digital training events aimed at the prevention and control of avian influenza and COVID19, by “addressing the myths and concerns related to food safety of poultry products while also controlling and preventing its spread.”  The [...]