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The media plays a vital role in World Food Safety Day 2023 successes

World Food Safety Day messages reached people across at least 139 countries this year. Newspapers, online news sites, television programmes, radio stations and magazines all played a part in spreading the word. On 7 March, the World Food Safety Day campaign was launched and the year’s theme, “Food standards save lives”, was announced. The Food Safety Africa magazine dedicated a double page spread to World Food Safety Day in its March issue and the Food Safety Magazine reported on the year’s [...]
09 August 2023

Global food company celebrates World Food Safety Day across the world

On 7 June the global food company, Danone, celebrated World Food Safety Day together with their “Danoners” across the globe. To address to this year’s theme, Food Standards Save Lives, the company organized multiple celebration events within Danone, sharing the knowledge and best practices on how Danone food safety standards are defined and implemented worldwide cross the whole value chain by their internal experts. Isabelle Esser, Chief of Research and Innovation and Quality and Food Safety Officer highlighted that every day should be [...]
13 June 2023

A project assessing food control and plant health systems in Africa on the spotlight during World Food Safety Day

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) joined top experts and international officials during Wednesday’s World Food Safety Day celebration to discuss a new project assessing food control systems and phytosanitary capacities to ensure food safety and plant health in 11 African Union nations. The event, organized around this year’s theme of ‘Food standards save lives, brought together representatives from the European Union, African Union Commission, African Union Member countries, and FAO leaders and technical teams.   FAO [...]
12 June 2023

Expert panel takes audience questions in World Food Safety Day event hosted by FAO and the World Food Programme

The last of four live World Food Safety Day events, which took place on 7 June at FAO in Rome and online, saw the audience drive the conversation in an “Ask us anything about food safety” session. Hosted by FAO and the World Food Programme (WFP), the event featured five experts from FAO, WFP and the Codex Alimentarius Commission Secretariat, who shared anecdotes and experiences with the audience at FAO and viewers watching online. They answered questions that had been [...]
09 June 2023

Online food safety tips offered by global food company for World Food Safety Day

On 7 June, AIB International, the “technology and information transfer centre for bakers and food processors”, celebrated World Food Safety Day by hosting a complimentary one-hour virtual class in which they “took a practical look at food safety culture.” Their expert, Judi Lazaro, a food safety professional with over 30 years of experience and currently Senior Director of Global Sales at AIB International, shared practical tips that "can positively impact the food safety culture of any food facility." A total of 422 people [...]
09 June 2023

The 2023 World Food Safety Day guide now available in Portuguese

O Guia para o Dia Mundial da Segurança dos Alimentos 2023 está aqui! The World Food Safety Day guide in Portuguese is out now and available for download. This means that the millions of Portuguese-speaking people across Africa, Asia, and Latin America have direct access to information about how to participate in the UN Day that is marked on 7 June, making it easier for food safety advocates to raise awareness and inspire action. The theme this year for World Food [...]
07 June 2023

FAO/WHO World Food Safety Day High-Level event explores the impacts and importance of food standards

This year’s joint FAO and WHO World Food Safety Day event took place today with a programme dedicated to the year’s theme, “Food standards save lives”. The hybrid event was hosted at FAO in Rome and was available online where over 2 000 people registered. Two panel discussions and a one-on-one conversation covered different aspects of how food standards save lives. Welcome remarks were delivered by FAO’s Director-General, Dr QU Dongyu, who underlined the importance of food safety both to FAO’s [...]
07 June 2023

FAO launches new web-based food safety toolbox on World Food Safety Day

In a live World Food Safety Day event today, FAO offered a first peek at a new website: “FAO’s GHP and HACCP Toolbox for Food Safety”. GHP – or Good Hygienic Practices - are well established practices for keeping food safe along the food supply chain. They underpin the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point, or HACCP, food safety management system. FAO has worked with international experts to develop the guidance materials for this new website, which is designed to [...]
07 June 2023

Happy World Food Safety Day 2023!

Today, 7 June, we celebrate the fifth World Food Safety Day with the theme “Food standards save lives”. The day is being promoted across social media channels using the hashtag #WorldFoodSafetyDay, and all over the world, individuals, NGOs, private companies, local and national governments and international organizations are hosting events and activities to take up the call to raise awareness on how to prevent, detect and manage foodborne illness. Four official FAO-hosted events will take place today at FAO in Rome, and [...]
06 June 2023
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New video released to explain standards on World Food Safety Day

On 7 June 2023 the world will celebrate the fifth United Nations World Food Safety Day and this year the theme is “food standards save lives”. A video will be launched in six languages to coincide with World Food Safety Day explaining what food safety standards are and why they matter. Standards and norms are all around us. They can be used to measure, to express quality and quantity or to calculate a level or grade. They provide certainty. They can, for [...]
05 June 2023