World Food Safety Day/ Contamination with “foreign materials” the focus of events for Brazilian company
On 7 June 2024, the company Via Rovigo Distribution, 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% of them participated in the day’s activities, [...]
10 June 2024
CCNE celebrates World Food Safety Day 2024
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 [...]
10 June 2024
World Food Safety Day/ India hospital conducts five keys training
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 [...]
10 June 2024
World Food Safety Day/ Mexico food company raises staff awareness on preparing for the unexpected
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 [...]
10 June 2024
Happy Birthday! FAO’s GHP and HACCP Toolbox for Food Safety is one year old
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 [...]
10 June 2024
World Food Safety Day/ Food safety professional promotes the Day
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 [...]
10 June 2024
WHO World Food Safety Day LIVE Q&A
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, [...]
07 June 2024
World Food Safety Day celebrations in Nepal
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 [...]
07 June 2024
Happy World Food Safety Day 2024!!
It’s 7 June! Happy World Food Safety day!
This year we celebrate under the theme “food safety: prepare for the unexpected,” which coincides with the 20th anniversary of the FAO/WHO International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN). INFOSAN was established following the development and adoption of the Codex Principles and Guidelines for the Exchange of Information in Food Safety Emergency Situations (CXG 19-1995), which was the genesis of INFOSAN in terms of designation of emergency contact points at the national level. These [...]
06 June 2024
World Food Safety Day/ India’s young food safety ambassador offers tips on the unexpected
India’s young food safety ambassador has recorded a video message in line with this year’s World Food Safety Day theme, “food safety: prepare for the unexpected”.
Ojasvini Naik said in her message: “If it is not safe, it is not food but sometimes foodborne illnesses and diseases can be caused due to unexpected events.”
For that reason, the young food safety advocate said, we all need to be prepared for the unexpected. She goes on to offer some food safety tips we [...]
06 June 2024
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