Nairobi, Kenya In Kenya, this year’s WFSD celebrations were spearheaded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, in collaboration with key players of the National Food Control System. The event brought together government ministries, departments and agencies, the private sector, development partners, and scientific institutions in a coordinated effort to promote food safety across the nation. Virtual Webinars to Galvanize Scientific Collaboration The national World Food Safety Day celebrations were held on 6 June. The week leading up to World Food Safety [...]

Lusubilo Mwamakamba (WHO AFRO), Hakim Mufumbiro (CCAFRICA), Sansan Kambire (FAO RAF)  To mark World Food Safety Day 2025, the Regional Offices for Africa of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO RAF), the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Food Programme (WFP), the African Union–InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), and the FAO/WHO Codex Coordinating Committee for Africa (CCAFRICA) jointly hosted a regional webinar on 12 June 2025. The webinar brought together stakeholders from across Africa’s food sector, including representatives from government competent authorities, academia, research [...]

Lusubilo Mwamakamba (WHO AFRO), Hakim Mufumbiro (CCAFRICA), Sansan Kambire (FAO RAF)  To mark World Food Safety Day 2025, the Regional Offices for Africa of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO RAF), the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Food Programme (WFP), the African Union–InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), and the FAO/WHO Codex Coordinating Committee for Africa (CCAFRICA) jointly hosted a regional webinar on 12 June 2025. The webinar brought together stakeholders from across Africa’s food sector, including representatives from government competent authorities, academia, research [...]

The Eighteenth Session of the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Foods (CCCF18) will take place 23–27 June 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand. We spoke to Sally Hoffer, from the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, who will chair CCCF18 on behalf of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, to find out more about the agenda of the Committee, its highlights and her expectations for this session. Sally, thank you once again for your time. This is going to be the fifth time [...]

As part of World Food Safety Day, celebrated on 7 June 2025, Agro Food Industrie (AFI), a subsidiary of the SONOCO group based in Guinea, shares its participation in this global event. Through a series of awareness-raising, training, and internal communication activities, the team mobilized around the 2025 theme to strengthen the food quality and safety culture, in accordance with the ISO 9001:2015 and FSSC 22000 V5.1 standards, which the company recently obtained. These actions were carried out with the aim of:  Promoting [...]

En saludo al Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los alimentos Cuba realizó las actividades siguientes: El 3 de junio se celebró el Taller Nacional del Codex Alimentarius en La Habana, Cuba, con la participación de más de 80 expertos, especialistas operarios, técnicos y directivos de los actores de la Cadena alimentaria, autoridades sanitarias y otras partes interesadas, organizado por el Punto Focal del Codex de Cuba. El 5 de junio se celebró un taller de intercambio organizado por el Ministerio de [...]

The Lao People’s Democratic Republic is reinforcing its commitment to food safety with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, and the Codex Trust Fund (CTF). A high-level advocacy meeting and a Codex orientation workshop were held in Vientiane, Lao PDR from 20 to 22 May 2025, organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the Food and Drug Department. The events aimed to raise awareness among [...]

As an initial and strategic step to reinforce the national Codex programme in Cambodia — especially following the restructuring of competent authorities responsible for Codex — a High-Level Advocacy Meeting and a Codex Orientation Workshop were held in Phnom Penh from 27 to 29 May 2025 with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, and the Codex Trust Fund. These events were organized in collaboration with the [...]

En el marco del Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos 2025, el Comité Nacional del Codex Alimentarius (CNCA) lideró el conversatorio que reunió a diversas instituciones públicas y académicas, con el objetivo de promover el conocimiento y la cultura de la inocuidad alimentaria en el Ecuador. En este evento, se resaltó el papel fundamental que desempeña la ciencia y la colaboración interinstitucional para garantizar alimentos seguros y de calidad para toda la población.  Durante la jornada, se abordaron avances [...]

Por tercer año consecutivo, Omex Alimentaria, una empresa orgullosamente mexicana dedicada a la producción de carnes frías y lácteos, celebró el Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos con una feria nacional llena de actividades lúdicas inspiradas en juegos tradicionales como la lotería y la pirinola, adaptados para reforzar conocimientos clave en buenas prácticas de manufactura, programa de prerrequisitos y control de peligros. Más de 1000 colaboradores participaron simultáneamente en distintas ubicaciones del país, involucrando a toda la cadena [...]