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On 18–19 September 2025, a seminar was held in Tashkent on the topic: “The importance of harmonizing the Republic of Uzbekistan’s food safety legislation with international standards for protecting human health and facilitating international trade.  The event was organized within the framework of the FAO and WHO Codex Trust Fund project “Strengthening national capacity for the sustainable functioning of Codex Alimentarius in Uzbekistan.” Participants included representatives of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis, the Committee for Sanitary and Epidemiological Wellbeing [...]

Experts, policymakers, and stakeholders from across Uzbekistan and abroad gathered on 23 September 2025 in Tashkent for a workshop on harmonization of the national food safety regulatory framework with Codex Alimentarius. The event sought to strengthen Uzbekistan’s role in Codex Alimentarius and to encourage greater alignment of national regulations with international food safety standards. The workshop opened with welcome remarks by the hosts represented respectively by Mr Nurmat Atabekov, First Deputy Chairman of the Uzbekistan Committee for Sanitary and Epidemiologic Welfare [...]

Baku, Azerbaijan In connection with World Food Safety Day on 7 June, an international conference was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, under the theme “Food Safety: Science in Action.” The event was jointly organized by the Food Safety Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan (AFSA), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Partnership and Liaison Office in Azerbaijan, and Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA) University. The conference brought together representatives of government institutions, international organizations, and experts from scientific and educational [...]

To mark World Food Safety Day, Kazakhstan held an International Round Table, bringing together national and international food safety leaders and experts. Virtual participants took part in the opening ceremony of the International Round Table included the  Vice-Chairperson of the Codex Alimentarius Commission Dr Bitul Vazgecer, FAO’s Officer on Food Safety and Consumer's Protection, Mary Kenny, from the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia Stela Georgiza from the WHO Country Office, Policy Advisor, Mario Latini, technical expert of the [...]

 To commemorate World Food Safety Day 2025, the WHO Country Office in Ukraine organized a series of public engagement activities aimed at raising awareness about food safety. Observing this day has become an annual tradition for the office, and this year’s efforts once again highlighted the importance of safe food practices. Key activities included: An interactive food safety quiz launched through Instagram Stories, designed to educate audiences in an engaging and accessible format. Production of the Ukrainian language version voiceover of WHO’s “5 [...]

To mark World Food Safety Day, the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition held a conference titled “Food Safety Culture: From Theory to Practice.” World Food Safety Day, celebrated every year on 7 June since 2019, serves as a key date to reflect on the importance of ensuring the availability of safe food for all consumers, and what better way to commemorate this day than by talking about a fundamental concept: food safety culture? The conference highlighted the importance of taking [...]

In line with this year’s World Food Safety Day theme, the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, hosted an international event on 10 June 2025, titled “Food Safety: Science in Action.” The meeting was organized by the Agricultural and Food Quality Inspection (AFQI), which acts as the Codex Contact Point for Poland, in collaboration with Poland’s Permanent Representation to the European Union and the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels. The venue of the event [...]

In celebration of World Food Safety Day 2025, the Nutrition Research Facility (NRF) will host a webinar titled “Food safety laws and regulations: improving their effectiveness by changing their design,” focusing on how policy design influences food safety outcomes across diverse country contexts. The webinar will have a special emphasis on case studies from Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya. Organized as part of the Knowledge and Research for Nutrition project implemented by AGRINATURA and funded by the European Union, this event is directly linked to [...]

On Friday, 6 June 2025, the celebration of World Food Safety Day took centre stage at the Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO) in Bern, Switzerland. Indeed, in line with the official theme for this year’s World Food Safety Day (WFSD), the event organised by the FSVO was titled: 4th Microbiological Risk Assessment Seminar: A Celebration of Science for Food Safety. This year’s event brought together experts from Federal Institutions as well as representatives from Cantonal authorities and the Academia, to discuss [...]

Romania participated in World Food Safety Day by hosting the 6th edition of the  “Youth and Food Safety - PolySafeFood” Competition. The event was organized by the Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection at Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania. This event encouraged middle school, high school, and college students to explore five key themes impacting food safety within the food chain, which they then presented as posters along with a video containing the presentation of the poster. This year, the [...]