News about World Food Safety Day
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India organization conducts World Food Safety Day training for small businesses
On the event of World food Safety Day 2022, the International Training Center Food Safety & Applied Nutrition (ITCFSAN), situated in Mumbai India, organized a comprehensive training session on Food Safety Management Systems (FSMS) for MSMEs involved in the food sector.
ITCFSAN promotes the need for a comprehensive food safety system in the food ecosystem and is actively involved in conducting activities and trainings that advocate the same. The programme was [...]
09 June 2022
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Pakistan university celebrates World Food Safety Day
The School of Food and Agricultural Sciences (SFAS), University of Management and Technology (UMT), Lahore, Pakistan conducted the seminar on “World Food Safety Day” on 7 June 2022. The Director, SFAS, Dr Nauman Khalid inaugurated the event by addressing the linkage of the event theme “Safer Food, Better Health” with SDG 2, SDG 3, SDG 6, and then concluded with SDG 12.
The invited speakers from academia (Dr Muhammad Naeem, Assistant [...]
09 June 2022
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Saudi Airlines Catering Company celebrates World Food Safety Day
On the World Food Safety Day Saudi Airlines Catering Company conducted several workshops on food safety. These workshops cover the importance of food safety, best international practices to maintain food safety and quality and highlighted the WHO five keys to safer food.
A video celebrating World Food Safety Day was recorded by company officials and food safety department to show how the company keeps its food safe and food safety part [...]
09 June 2022
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From the field to the table on Costa Rica’s World Food Safety Day
The Ministry for the Economy, Industry and Commerce of Costa Rica (MEIC) has produced a video to mark World Food Safety Day this year, with the title “From field to table - the different actors in the production chain”.
The video features six people talking about why food safety is important to them. Each person represents a different step in the food production chain.
Milk producer, Ivannia Quesada says “quality and food [...]
08 June 2022
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Sustainable Development Goals for children – an initiative in Türkiye
Sustainable Development Goal 2 is about ending hunger, achieving food security and good nutrition, and supporting sustainable agriculture. The purpose of World Food Safety Day celebrations is to raise people's awareness of food safety issues, show how to prevent disease through food safety, discuss collaborative approaches to improved food safety across sectors, and promote solutions and ways to improve food security.
For this purpose, Hasan Polatkan Primary School students in Kayseri [...]
08 June 2022
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WHO and FAO celebrate the fourth annual World Food Safety Day on Zoom
Thanking participants for their commitment to safer food and better health, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus opened the 7 June webinar by sharing the news that countries approved the updated WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety. In late May 2022, the World Health Assembly committed “for the first time to concrete targets for reducing foodborne diarrhoea, strengthening surveillance, and improving coordination,” he announced.
Also relaying World Food Safety Day greetings [...]
07 June 2022
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Great efforts are needed to guarantee the safety of the food on our table
On Tuesday, 1 June a multiagency-webinar took place for World Food Safety Day in the Latin America and Caribbean region. The trilingual event explored ways of ensuring “safer food, better health” for all, and looked at some of the food safety challenges across theregion.
The webinar was organized and hosted by the International Regional Organization for Agricultural Health (OIRSA) and co-organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [...]
07 June 2022
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World Food safety Day / Codex Chairperson calls for the transformation of food systems
“Our mission in Codex is to be where the world comes together to create food safety and quality standards that protect everyone everywhere. Food safety is at the core of our work,” said Codex Chairperson Steve Wearne as celebrations got underway across the globe for World Food Safety Day 2022.
One in ten people worldwide fall ill from contaminated food each year and the magnitude of the global public health burden [...]
07 June 2022
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FAO and WHO food safety experts debunk myths live on social media
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), hosted a social media live Question-and-Answer (Q&A) event for the public on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. WHO Scientist, Simone Moraes Raszl, and Jeffrey LeJeune, FAO Food Safety Officer, discussed key facts about food safety and debunked some popular myths on Monday, 6 June [...]
06 June 2022
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Asia-Pacific WFSD webinar focuses on multi-sectoral actions and improving food safety in fresh food markets
World Food Safety Day was observed in the Asia Pacific region on 3 June 2022 through a webinar organized jointly by FAO, UNEP, WFP, WHO and WOAH. The theme of the webinar was “Multisectoral action needed to raise awareness and promote action on food safety’’. The event highlighted the importance of food safety within the larger context of food systems and particularly with reference to the achievement of SDGs 2, [...]
06 June 2022