This year, 14 May marked the twentieth annual Food Safety Day in the Republic of Korea. Established to “raise public interest in food safety and promote safety awareness of food-related workers,” the event, organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, now extends to two weeks of awareness raising, awards and seminars. The Korean celebrations stand as an example to the newer World Food Safety Day, now [...]

The University of Malta news service, Newspoint, will mark World Food Safety Day this year, by highlighting an ‘eye-opening’ project in which the university is a partner. The 3-year-old Project PROTECT, being led by University College, Dublin, is examining foodborne microbial responses to climate change. For its part, the University of Malta’s Department of Food Sciences and Nutrition, led by Professor Vasilis Valdramidis, is looking at, for example, the growth [...]

The Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology & Food Science at the Cyprus University of Technology (TEPAK) is organizing a competition on Food Safety in celebration of World Food Safety Day 2021. All active undergraduate and postgraduate students at TEPAK can participate in the competition either individually or in groups of up to three students. Students are encouraged to produce submissions in the form of a photo, poster, photomontage or photo-history aimed [...]

There are few statistics on the burden of foodborne disease in Bangladesh, according to the FAO-implemented programme, “Improving food safety in Bangladesh.” But what we do know is that unsafe food is a widespread and pervasive issue in the country, with diarrhoeal diseases, enteric fever and hepatitis presenting as the most prevalent foodborne diseases. So, the UN’s designation of a World Food Safety Day, to be celebrated annually on 7 [...]

Au Burkina Faso, une équipe chargée d’organiser des activités pour la Journée internationale de la sécurité sanitaire des aliments (JISSA) s’est réunie à Ouagadougou, le 7 mai 2021, afin de définir un plan d’organisation de l’événement du 7 juin et les messages clés à diffuser au niveau national. Quelques-unes des préoccupations majeures en matière de sécurité sanitaire des aliments dans le pays sont l’utilisation abusive de pesticides dans les fruits, légumes [...]

At the end of April, the International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN) hosted three webinars as part of preparations for World Food Safety Day, which will take place on 7 June this year. The webinars served as an introduction to and overview of the 2021 campaign, with a presentation by Chile’s agency for food safety and quality (ACHIPIA) about the events they will hold this year. Members had an opportunity to [...]

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 [...]

L’Initiative mondiale pour la sécurité sanitaire des aliments (GFSI), l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO), le Programme alimentaire mondial des Nations Unies (PAM) et le Secrétariat de la Commission du Codex Alimentarius se sont réunis en ligne dans le but de discuter des partenariats entre secteur public et secteur privé, indispensables pour assurer la sécurité sanitaire des aliments à travers le monde. Le 11 mars 2021, Erica Sheward, directrice [...]

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 [...]

Le 18 février, un bulletin d’information diffusé sur le compte Twitter du Codex mais aussi sur la page LinkedIn et la chaîne YouTube de la FAO a donné le coup d’envoi de la campagne de la Journée internationale de la sécurité sanitaire des aliments 2021, qui a pour thème: «Des aliments sains pour un avenir sain». Cette Journée, qui connaît un formidable essor sur le plan international à l’aube de son troisième anniversaire, [...]