To celebrate World Food Safety Day this year, the students in Food and Nutritional Sciences, at Macau University of Science and Technology interviewed residents in Macao, professors and students on campus, prepared promotional materials such as brochures, canvas bags and posters, and released videos on the festival day. They spread a message that food safety plays a vital role for human health, and people have realized its importance under the COVID-19 pandemic. The students in Food and Nutritional Science, participated in this [...]

Professor Dr Parvez Haris from De Montfort University, Leicester, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, presented an online lecture for World Food Safety Day entitled “Can quinoa be a healthier and safer alternative to rice ?“. He discussed research led by his group to reduce arsenic exposure in the Bangladeshi population and at the same time increase their intake of beneficial nutrients that are low in their diet. High exposure to inorganic arsenic has been associated [...]

On 7 June, the Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS) in Kazakhstan welcomed guests to the 7th expert meeting of the Healthy and Safe Food Ecosystem Programme of the IOFS, devoted to the celebration of World Food Safety Day. The event was organized jointly with the Kazakh Agrotechnical University named after S.Seifulin. The meeting gathered experts from: Kazakakhstan, the Sultanate of Oman, Pakistan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Türkiye and Tajikistan. The IOFS calls for global participation in promoting [...]

O Guia para o Dia Mundial da Segurança dos Alimentos 2023 está aqui! The World Food Safety Day guide in Portuguese is out now and available for download. This means that the millions of Portuguese-speaking people across Africa, Asia, and Latin America have direct access to information about how to participate in the UN Day that is marked on 7 June, making it easier for food safety advocates to raise awareness and inspire action. The theme this year for World Food [...]

The National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (NABCB), organized a virtual event to celebrate World Food Safety Day on 7 June 2023. The celebration featured an array of “informative presentations, interactive sessions, and engaging activities”, all designed to address various aspects of food safety. Distinguished experts in the field were present to share their insights and experiences, providing valuable knowledge on current food safety trends, emerging challenges, and best practices. NABCB is dedicated to promoting food safety standards and practices in [...]

This year’s joint FAO and WHO World Food Safety Day event took place today with a programme dedicated to the year’s theme, “Food standards save lives”. The hybrid event was hosted at FAO in Rome and was available online where over 2 000 people registered. Two panel discussions and a one-on-one conversation covered different aspects of how food standards save lives. Welcome remarks were delivered by FAO’s Director-General, Dr QU Dongyu, who underlined the importance of food safety both to FAO’s [...]

In a live World Food Safety Day event today, FAO offered a first peek at a new website: “FAO’s GHP and HACCP Toolbox for Food Safety”. GHP – or Good Hygienic Practices - are well established practices for keeping food safe along the food supply chain. They underpin the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point, or HACCP, food safety management system. FAO has worked with international experts to develop the guidance materials for this new website, which is designed to [...]

Today, 7 June, we celebrate the fifth World Food Safety Day with the theme “Food standards save lives”. The day is being promoted across social media channels using the hashtag #WorldFoodSafetyDay, and all over the world, individuals, NGOs, private companies, local and national governments and international organizations are hosting events and activities to take up the call to raise awareness on how to prevent, detect and manage foodborne illness. Four official FAO-hosted events will take place today at FAO in Rome, and [...]

On 7 June 2023 the world will celebrate the fifth United Nations World Food Safety Day and this year the theme is “food standards save lives”. A video will be launched in six languages to coincide with World Food Safety Day explaining what food safety standards are and why they matter. Standards and norms are all around us. They can be used to measure, to express quality and quantity or to calculate a level or grade. They provide certainty. They can, for [...]

As part of the global celebrations of Codex Alimentarius turning 60, the Finnish government hosted a session at the annual Food Industry fair in Helsinki, Finland, on 23 May 2023. Titled “Codex – Far From Retirement”, the session attracted over 100 food professionals out of approximately 550 people attending the fair. The session was led by Sebastian Hielm, Finland’s Food safety Director and European member of the Executive Committee of the Codex Alimentarius Commission and included presentations by Tom Heilandt, Secretary [...]