As part of its World Food Safety Day Celebrations, the Ramdevrao Hospital in Kukatpally, Hyderabad, India, trained patients, families and staff on healthy eating habits. In addition to ensuring each patient received the safe, nutritious diet that is appropriate for their recovery plan, dieticians in the hospital ensured they additionally spoke with each patient about how to ensure safe food habits at home. Based on the five keys to safe food and using the World Food Safety Day information assets provided, hospital [...]

Grupo Jumex in Mexico celebrated World Safety Day by displaying a “Safety Expo”, where, based on the information displayed on the WHO website, the Group's Plants expose safety issues and promote the culture of the importance of ensuring the safety of food products. Areas such as Internal Communication, Human Capital, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing and Technical Management worked together for this campaign. This year, 6 local plants, 4 foreign plants, 6 support areas and 4 invited suppliers participated. The local plants, foreign [...]

Join FAO/WHO International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN) for a webinar in celebration of World Food Safety Day. This year, World Food Safety Day campaign focuses on the theme "Food safety: prepare for the unexpected", highlighting the importance of good risk management and risk communication practices during unexpected food safety incidents. On concrete examples, learn how effective communication is crucial in mitigating risks, ultimately reducing the burden of foodborne illnesses. The webinar will feature a presentation on INFOSAN’s mechanisms for identifying, [...]

In a live event on World Food Safety Day 2023, FAO launched a new website comprising a series of practical food safety management guidance documents based on the Codex Alimentarius General Principles of Food Hygiene. The website focuses on Good Hygiene Practices (GHP) and the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points system (HACCP) and is called: “FAO’s GHP and HACCP Toolbox for Food Safety”. The toolbox aims to give all those involved in food safety management in the food sector, be [...]

Food Safety professional Any Coronado has worked this year to ensure that World Food Safety Day key messages are spread far and wide. In promoting the international observance particularly and food safety more generally, Coronado has been interviewed by media outlets that include Food Safety magazine and TV channel Deutsche Welle Latin America. Under the title “World Food Safety Day Exclusive: 'Food Safety is an Essential Part of Our Daily Lives'”, the Peruvian food safety advocate talked in the magazine article about [...]

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 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 [...]