El Comité Coordinador para África fue creado por la Comisión del Codex Alimentarius en 1972, con el mandato de ejercer “la coordinación general en la preparación de normas relativas a la región de África”. El comité celebró su primera reunión en la FAO en 1974, con la asistencia de 19 países.
Al iniciarse el mandato del nuevo coordinador regional, el Acuerdo sobre la Zona de Libre Comercio Continental Africana (AfCFTA, por sus siglas en inglés), que entró en vigor en mayo de 2020, ha reforzado la necesidad de contar con un sistema eficiente y eficaz para gestionar las medidas sanitarias y fitosanitarias, en particular la inocuidad alimentaria, en todo el continente a medida que sus fronteras se abren al comercio.
El coordinador regional tiene su sede en la Oficina Nacional de Normalización de Uganda, un organismo estatutario dependiente del Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Cooperativas que supervisa, en el marco de su mandato, la promoción y el uso de las normas.
Como coordinador regional, Uganda tiene la intención de colaborar estrechamente con los diferentes países a través de encuestas, seminarios web y talleres para identificar las necesidades y los nuevos problemas, y generar conciencia sobre los temas prioritarios en materia de inocuidad de los alimentos y sobre las normas del Codex. También se analizará la situación de la inocuidad de los alimentos en la región en términos más amplios a través de un estudio piloto. Al fortalecer la colaboración con organismos regionales como la Unión Africana, la Organización Africana de Normalización y la Secretaría de la Zona de Libre Comercio Continental Africana, Uganda pretende asimismo mejorar la labor de incidencia en la región.
The Benin Food Safety Agency (ABSSA) is the competent authority responsible for organizing World Food Safety Day activities at the national level in Benin, in collaboration with international organizations.
Organizing and celebrating such a day involves communicating about food-related health risks. As such, ABSSA organized this year’s activities with the aim of raising public awareness and inspiring action to prevent, detect and manage food-borne health risks. Activities were rolled out in two phases: firstly, the activities were promoted in the media, [...]
On 7 June World Food Safety Day was celebrated in Chad under the theme "Food standards save lives".
As part of the celebrations, the manager of the Cabinet d’Expertise Six Sigma gave an interview to Télévision Tchad24, a private Chadian television channel based in N'Djamena, Chad. The interview focused on the issue of a food safety culture and the popularization of food standards in Chad.
Responding to journalists’ questions, the manager of Cabinet d’Expertise Six Sigma listed a few points, which can [...]
USAID’s Feed the Future Initiative, EatSafe: Evidence and Action Towards Safe, Nutritious Food, has honored this year’s World Food Safety Day (WFSD) with a special focus on food safety standards spanning from local to global. EatSafe's aim is to enable lasting improvements in the safety of nutritious foods in traditional food markets in low- and middle-income countries. To commemorate this year’s WFSD, EatSafe led a series of activities, including thought pieces, events, resources, and even an interview cruncher discussing how [...]
The Luanda Central Agro-Food Laboratory of the National Food Quality Control Service, a body under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Angola, organized a lecture with high school students in Luanda on "The role of a conformity assessment body (Laboratório Agroalimentar) in the process of obtaining safe food".
Engineer Carlos Chaves of the Central Agro-Food Laboratory of Luanda spoke with both students and agrifood technicians on 7 June.
With a keen interest in food safety, Chaves has also attended celebrations of [...]
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Health Organization (WHO), World Food Programme (WFP), African Union-InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and Codex Coordinating Committee for Africa (CCAFRICA) gathered on Zoom to discuss food safety standards in Africa on 13 June 2023. The objectives for the webinar, presented by the moderator, John Oppong Otoo of AU-IBAR, were to raise awareness, highlight the benefits, share best practices and discuss challenges and potential solutions to implementing [...]
The Street Food Safety Committee in Nigeria, an arm of the Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology, Lagos State Chapter, was out in force on World Food Safety Day, as members handed out leaflets and talked to the public about food safety.
In particular, the group spoke with people shopping and working in a market, where food is sold in the street. The food safety team talked with people about the Five Keys to Safer Food, an initiative of the [...]
Mayo Macs, a macadamia processing manufactural company in South Africa celebrated World Food Safety Day this year by producing an exhibition for staff to learn about food safety.
“The exhibition showed the whole Mayo Macs process, starting from delivery to packed product. Emphasis was put on all equipment used during the process to ensure food safety and explaining the process,” said Mpume Ndlovu, a Mayo Macs employee.
Photo © Mayo Macs SA
The Afrotropic Cocoa Processing Company in Ghana celebrated World Food Safety Day again this year, with a pep talk and videos. Staff were also issued with a specially printed World Food Safety Day T-shirt.
The videos will continue to be shown in communal areas of the facility for several months. They include a mixture of food safety lectures from the Managing Director and operational managers, videos on basic food hygiene practices and World Food Safety Day videos produced by FAO and [...]
The FAO & WHO Regional Offices for Africa, World Food Programme, Codex Coordinating Committee for Africa (CCAFRICA) and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) are collaborating to convene a continental webinar in Africa as part of the efforts to commemorate WFSD this year under the theme "Food Standards Save Lives in the African Region".
The purpose of the regional webinar is to celebrate WFSD2023 through discussing collaborative approaches with all stakeholders in the value chain for improving Food Safety systems in [...]
The Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Mauritius (UoM) actively celebrated World Food Safety Day to create awareness around the important role food safety plays, through a half-day workshop on 7 June 2023. The programme for the workshop was carefully planned to include some of the most pressing issues in food safety in Mauritius. Speakers were from the University of Mauritius, the Ministry of Health and Wellness, the Codex Contact Point for Mauritius, the Mauritius Standards Bureau, the food [...]
