Kenya is in high gear in preparation for the World Food Safety Day celebrations as the national WFSD2021 planning committee meets for the third time. In the discussions, the line-up of activities include: Pre-event activities, such as digital and social media campaigns, print media campaigns as well as TV and radio awareness programmes. During the event activities, which will include live virtual forums, newspaper supplement, live Twitter chats and live streaming on [...]

La Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI o Iniciativa Global para la Inocuidad de los Alimentos), la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), el Programa Mundial de Alimentos de las Naciones Unidas (PMA) y la Secretaría de la Comisión del Codex Alimentarius se reunieron en forma virtual para mantener debatir sobre las alianzas entre los sectores público y privado, una forma de colaboración que resulta esencial [...]

With remarkable speed the Polish Agricultural and Food Quality Inspectorate has already launched its awareness raising campaign as the world gears up for the 2021 World Food Safety Day on 7 June. Writing on their official website and on social media following the launch of the campaign on 18 February 2021, Poland encourages all its citizens to follow the events surrounding the UN Day and engage with others to celebrate “safe [...]

El 18 de febrero se difundió un boletín informativo a través del canal de Twitter del Codex, del LinkedIn de la FAO y del canal de YouTube para lanzar la campaña del Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos 2021 con el tema “Alimentos inocuos ahora para un mañana saludable”. En este día, que está cobrando relevancia en todo el mundo a medida que se acerca su tercer aniversario, se [...]

El 18 de febrero de 2021 a las 15:00 CET lanzaremos la campaña del Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos de 2021 y anunciaremos el tema de la celebración de este año. En un boletín informativo en el que participarán la FAO, la OMS junto con las Secretarías de Comisión del Codex Alimentarius y de la Red Internacional de Autoridades en materia de Inocuidad de los Alimentos, además [...]

At today’s opening of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the release of a new report about World Food Safety Day 2020. “Under the theme ‘Food safety, everyone’s business’, the WHO-led event focused on building and maintaining safe food in marketplaces,” he said, referring to the UN Day while holding up a copy of the report for participants to see. The report, World Food Safety Day [...]

In the two short years since the World Food Safety Day was created, we have already seen the engagement and momentum that this campaign can garner from all corners of the industry and around the world. Food safety truly is everyone’s business, and it is heartening to see WFSD participation from the private sector and public sector alike. At the end of the day, we are all consumers and can [...]

This year’s World Food Safety Day’s theme was Food Safety Everyone’s Business. The Authority adopted this theme to conduct a campaign on food safety. Several health reports indicate that there has been arise in the number of food borne illnesses globally, this campaign is therefore aimed at raising awareness on the risks people are exposed to through consuming unsafe food. It is also to boost safety measures for consumption of [...]

To celebrate World Food Safety Day (WFSD) in 2020, the Sichuan Agricultural University made a video combining their education and research on food safety with the WFSD theme, introducing the importance of basic education on food safety. The knowledge would be leveraged to promote greater awareness of food safety among more people. The university students also published a video on WeChat to reach an even wider audience, and help spread the [...]

The Ministry of Public Health of Qatar organized a series of initiatives in celebration of World Food Safety Day that made news headlines in June 2020. During a webinar a draft Arab food safety policy was presented. The Arab Food Safety Team of the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States had tasked Qatar with preparing the initial draft, which is ‘to provide the technical basis for joint coordination [...]