حثَّ كل من المدير العام لمنظمة الأغذية والزراعة، السيد/ كو دونغ يو، والمدير العام لمنظمة الصحة العالمية، السيد/ تيدروس أدهانوم غيبريسوس على اتخاذ اجراءات عالمية لضمان حصول الجميع على غذاء آمن اليوم لغدٍ مفعم بالصحة - وذلك من خلال رسائل الفيديو في افتتاحية لفعالية تجمُّع على تطبيق زووم (Zoom) على الانترنت الذي تم بثه أيضا على شبكة الإنترنت في 7 حزيران/ يونيو، 2021. قال المدير العامل لمنظمة الأغذية والزراعة مشجعا على [...]

In celebration of World Food Safety Day, the National Food Agency of Georgia has presented its annual report. The event was opened by Mr. Levan Davitashvili, the Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia, who highlighted the achieved results and new challenges and thanked FAO and other international organizations for their continuous support in ensuring food safety in the country. "I would not exaggerate to state that in terms of [...]

As the Vice Minister of Health care E. Kiyasov (main photo) noted, food products consumed by the population determine the standard of living and well-being of future generations. WHO estimates that the consumption of food contaminated with bacteria, viruses or parasites, as well as toxic or chemical substances, causes 600 million cases of foodborne illness and 420 000 lethal cases each year. A welcoming speech was made by the founder of [...]

El Salvador se unió a la conmemoración del Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos a través de un conversatorio virtual donde se dieron cita representantes de instituciones públicas, la  industria de alimentos, organismos internacionales y universidades para hablar sobre el lema de este año: Alimentos seguros ahora, para un mañana saludable. El Organismo Salvadoreño de Reglamentación Técnica -OSARTEC-, como Punto de Contacto del Codex Alimentarius organizó la actividad que [...]

On June 7, 2021, Kenya joined the rest of the world in celebrating the 3rd World Food Safety Day. The theme of this year being ‘Safe Food Today, for a Healthy Tomorrow,’ the country organized an online webinar to raise awareness and inspire action on the importance of food safety in the country and the African region at large. The National Planning Committee Coordinated by the Ministry of Health held a [...]

تعتبر سلامة الغذاء قضية مهمة وأولوية في دولة الكويت لأنها كدولة تعتمد بشكل كبير على الأغذية المستوردة. وبالتالي تدرك دولة الكويت أهمية التحديات التي تواجهها لضمان سلامة الغذاء والالتزامات بحماية صحة المستهلك، كما تتعاون الهيئة العامة للغذاء والتغذية في دولة الكويت مع مختلف الجهات المعنية للتأكيد على أهمية الوقاية من الأمراض المنقولة بالغذاء. يستدعي العبء العالمي للأمراض المنقولة عن طريق الأغذية جهودًا تعاونية ومشتركة بين جميع الجهات المعنية لتقليل ومنع [...]

For fans of the Food Safety Commission of Japan’s (FSCJ) Kids Box feature, standby for a revamp! The FSJC is planning to introduce new characters to mark World Food Safety Day, so check them out on 7 June at: https://www.fsc.go.jp/kids-box/ https://www.facebook.com/cao.fscj Kids Box introduces young people to different food safety concepts and gives them age-appropriate information on subjects like allergies, food poisoning and food preservation. The FSCJ Chairperson will has also prepared a video [...]

FoodSHAP, the Food Safety and Hygiene Academy of the Philippines, has organized free Food Safety Webinars for the whole month of June, which are aimed at “consumers at home, in school, and in the tourism and hospitality industry.” Starting on World Food Safety Day itself, there will be four webinars in total, covering arrange of subjects connected to some of the World Food Safety Day calls to action:   7 June  Keep it [...]

For World Food Safety Day 2021, SSAFE has collaborated with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to develop a series of posters to demonstrate that together, through partnerships, we can do more to deliver safe food. Because food safety is everyone’s business! The six posters, which you can download for free below, cover the following key topics: Ensuring food safety throughout the supply chain: the journey of a [...]

To open the week leading up to World Food Safety Day, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the International Regional Organisation for Animal and Plant Health (OIRSA) and the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (CCLAC) organized a two-day webinar to discuss the impact of food contaminants, traceability systems [...]