On 7 June 2024, the Coordinating Committee for the Near East (CCNE) regional coordinator, Members, and Codex Secretariat met virtually to celebrate World Food Safety Day under the theme "Prepare for the Unexpected". The meeting began with a general discussion on food safety events, during which the coordinator emphasized that food safety is a collective responsibility. Attendees shared their views and discussed questions related to various food safety incidents, including food poisoning, natural disasters, and product recalls. Dr Sarah Cahill from [...]

On 7 June 2024, the company Via Rovigo Indústria, Comércio e Dissistência de Produtos Alimentícios S.A., located in the city of Sertãozinho, state of São Paulo, celebrated World Day of Food Safety. Activities included lectures on Foreign Materials, an information mural and a special gift. The celebration ended with snacks, as every party should. The actions were carried out under the slogan of the World Food Safety Day Campaign: "The Food Safety is Everyone’s Business." The company has 160 employees, and 100% [...]

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 [...]

En Grupo Jumex celebramos el día mundial de la inocuidad desplegando una “Expo de Inocuidad”, donde, basados en la información que se despliega en la pagina de la OMS, las Plantas del Grupo exponen temas de inocuidad y fomentan la cultura de la importancia de asegurar la inocuidad en nuestros productos. Áreas como Comunicación interna, Capital Humano, Aseguramiento de Calidad, Manufactura y la Dirección Técnica, trabajan en conjunto para esta campaña. Este año participaron 6 Plantas locales, 4 Plantas Foráneas, 6 [...]

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 Bangladesh Food Safety Foundation (BFSF) along with six more organizations convened a seminar on 8 June 2024, at the AKM Giasuddin Milky Auditorium in Dhaka, Bangladesh with Professor Dr Ali Akbar, former Vice-Chancellor, Bangladesh Agricultural University. The seminar focused on “Ensuring Food Safety in a Nation of Resilience: Unexpected Events, Role of Public Agencies and Private Sector for Uninterrupted Supply Chain.”  Keynote speaker Dr Md. Kamrul Islam, Professor, Department of Horticulture, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh reiterated that food safety [...]

The Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues (CCPR) has concluded its 55th session in Chnegdu, P.R. China, with the Committee Chairperson, Dr Weili SHAN, expressing his “sincere thanks” to all the Chairs and co-Chairs of the working groups, and to all delegates for their work and support “to facilitate discussions and to prepare working documents promptly, and significant contribution to the Session”. Mr SHAN went on to say “The CCPR is the member’s committee as well as the observer’s committee. The [...]

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 [...]