A webinar for the Asia-Pacific region held on 3 June 2020, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) attracted nearly 1000 participants and included speakers and panelists from government, private sector, academia and consumer groups. Food safety has come into the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic and the webinar heard how heightened awareness about the need for personal hygiene, [...]

粮农组织和世卫组织将于2020年6月5日（星期五）下午在瑞士日内瓦世卫组织总部联合举办一场虚拟庆祝活动—一次脸书直播活动—。这场为时45分钟的聚会将在官方庆祝活动的前两天举行，今年的正式庆祝适逢星期天。 观众将有机会与两位来自世界卫生组织和食品法典委员会秘书处的食品安全专家交谈，他们将讨论建立和维护安全的食品供应和健康市场，为社区提供安全的食品，促进全世界的健康饮食。 活动链接 https://www.facebook.com/WHO 了解更多： 粮农组织食品安全工作 世卫组织食品安全工作

Update: date change Now taking place on Tuesday 9 June 2020, the UN Food Systems Summit and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will host a Twitter chat in observance of World Food Safety Day. Anyone with a Twitter account can join the conversation, which will be led by @FoodSystems around the hashtags #WorldFoodSafetyDay and #WFSDchat. In view of next year’s UN Food Systems Summit, the online chat will look at how food safety fits into food systems, as ensuring food [...]

A day where the focus of attention on LinkedIn will be food safety. From LinkedIn and YouTube live broadcast of brief interventions by professionals related to food safety. From Nicaragua, Spain, Ecuador, Brazil, France, Colombia, the United States and other countries, food safety will be discussed.Date: 7 June 2020Time: 16:00 - 20:00 (Madrid time)Access from Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/veraliment/Access from Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16FyCgf7bco A day of everyone for everyone. On 7 June we will voice food safety. A day where everyone will be the same, [...]

To Commemorate the World Food Safety Day that falls on 7 June 2020, FoodBev International Consulting (Pty) Ltd invites you to join a Free Zoom Food Safety Talk entitled: No Food Security Without Food Safety. Date: 5 June 2020 Time: 12h00-13h30 (GMT +2) Platform: Zoom The theme for this year is Food Safety, everyone’s business. A panel of experts drawn from industry and academia will each take time to present on different key issues and calls to action set out for the day by [...]

The Government of Suriname is planning to run a food safety awareness campaign, calling upon decision makers, the private sector, civil society, and consumers to take action to keep food safe. The campaign will highlight the benefits of strengthening its food control system, in particular areas related to coverage of oversight and coordination. This initiative links up to the ongoing EU-funded FAO project called Suriname Agriculture Market Access Project. The campaign will start on 1 June and end on 7 June 2020, which is World Food [...]

For World Food Safety Day 2020, the Aftropic Cocoa Processing Company will highlight the importance of food safety among staff with a series of initiatives. The facility, based in Accra, Ghana, will: Launch 10 golden rules on food safety; Feature a pep talk at the beginning of every shift of workers (12 max), who will observe social distancing and wear masks; Post the WHO/FAO World Food Safety Day posters on the facility to create more awareness; and Share chocolate with every worker at lunch.     [...]

For the celebration of this second World Food Safety Day, FAO and WHO have decided to raise awareness about the importance of the provision of safe food in markets through the International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN). In this context, the INFOSAN Secretariat organized in May three webinars (English, French and Spanish) for the members of the network to present the topic detailing what everyone can do to improve food safety in markets. The webinars were attended by 245 INFOSAN members and [...]

China National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA) will celebrate the second World Food Safety Day (WFSD) in various publicity campaigns on 7 June 2020. The major initiatives planned for the Day include online interactive games, popular science animation videos, popular science lecture videos, popular science picture books and flyers that depict a food safety topic or issue. These initiatives will focus on raising awareness towards food safety among consumers and implementing "food safety, everybody’s business" as the theme of [...]

The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) is in full gear, promoting this year's World Food Safety Day campaign among its community as a key moment to raise awareness and urge action. GFSI’s own plans to observe World Food Safety Day: 5 days, 5 videos, 5 calls to action!  In the week leading up to 7 June, GFSI will post a brief video every day, each addressing one of  the 5  calls to action. They invite your engagement throughout the campaign for World Food Safety Day [...]