The European Union-African Union (EU-AU) Partnership for Resilient, Inclusive and Safe food systems for Everyone (UP-RISE), will hold a World Food Safety Day webinar on the subject of “Bridging Gaps in the Informal Sector” Date: 27 June 2024 Time: 14:00 CESTRegister here Read more on UP-RISEhttps://www.uprisefoodsafety.org/ Read more World Food Safety Day website World Food Safety Day Communication Toolkit World Good Safety Day Trello board World Food Safety Day asset bank  

The most recent cases of foodborne disease outbreaks internationally and their possible solutions will be discussed from the point of view of food technologists, taking into account the new challenges posed by climate change and the new realities of globalization in food production and distribution. Date: 15 June 2024Time: 08:30–12:00 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (14:30–18:00 CEST)Place: Bejuma Chamber of Commerce, Bejuma Carabobo State, Venezuela. Read more World Food Safety Day website World Food Safety Day Communication Toolkit World Food Safety Day Trello board [...]

A webinar will be held to commemorate World Food Safety Day in Africa under the theme: "Preparing for Food Safety Emergencies in the African Region". The event is convened through collaboration by the Regional Offices for FAO and WHO, the World Food Programme, the African Union - InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources and the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for Africa. The main objective of the regional webinar is to create awareness amongst stakeholders in the region in order to generate discussions and ideas [...]

The Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry is organizing for World Food Safety Day a half-day hybrid event to be held in the nation’s capital, Canberra, and online on Tuesday 11 June 2024. The Department is the lead agency in Australia for Codex Alimentarius and sees World Food Safety Day as an opportunity to promote international food safety standard-setting among partner Codex agencies, industry and consumer organizations and food and beverage businesses. This year’s World Food Safety Day theme, [...]

The FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa (FAO-RNE) with the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (WHO-EMRO) will jointly hold awareness campaign events for this Year’s World Food Safety Day and will invite officials from Member Countries’ food safety competent authorities, FAO/WHO International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN), and the FAO Food Systems and Food Safety Division (ESF). In a hybrid event being held in Cairo and on the Zoom platform, the participants will provide their [...]

On 6 June, the World Health Organization (WHO) hosted an AskWHO Live Q&A on the occasion of World Food Safety Day. The online audience from the WHO X, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube platforms was invited to ask questions on maintaining food safety during unexpected events such as power outages, flooding, or other food safety emergencies. During the live event, moderated by Yanawit Dechpanyawat, Social Media Officer at WHO, the three speakers, Jeffrey LeJeune, Food Safety Officer at FAO; Jéssica Kayamori Lopes, [...]

The World Food Safety Day 2024 event kicked off in Kathmandu today with an interactive programme on food safety emergency preparedness and response which was supported by the Codex Trust Fund project in Nepal through WHO. The theme of the World Food Safety Day is ‘Food safety: prepare for the unexpected’ in order to draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks of biological, chemical and radionuclear origin. The main objective of the interaction programme was [...]

The Food and Agriculture Organization Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (FAO RAP), together with the World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia (WHO SEARO) and Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WHO WPRO), has organized a webinar titled " Food safety incident management – Experiences from the Asia-Pacific region” to celebrate the World Food Safety Day. Join us on this special occasion to learn how national authorities: Respond to food safety emergencies; Disseminate key messages to safeguard public health and [...]

The Master’s Programme in Chemical Sciences with an Emphasis in Food Safety of the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidad Autonoma de Chiriquí, will celebrate World Food Safety Day on 7 June 2024, under the theme – “Prepare for the unexpected”. Conferences will be held on topics of food safety and security, and national food production companies will be present. There will also be a poster exhibition of related research. Finally, a radio address will be given. The community in general [...]

India’s Council of Agricultural Research – Central Institute of Fisheries Education (ICAR-CIFE) is organizing a national webinar on "Pertinent issues in food safety and hygiene." There will also be an educational exhibition and demo on the occasion of World Food Safety Day, 7 June 2024. The exhibition aims to spread awareness on the importance of safe food and hygienic practices, detection of food adulterants and public health issues associated with the consumption of unsafe food. Link: https://www.cife.edu.in/pdf/Events/Food%20safety%20day-event-31-5-2024.pdf Read more World Food Safety Day website World Food [...]