This year, under the slogan "Science in Action," Veraliment and the Tres Cantos City Council are joining forces to celebrate World Food Safety Day 2025. Veterinarian Eva Gregorio, from Tres Cantos, and Veraliment CEO Andrés García, together with the Tres Cantos City Council, have organized several activities around World Food Safety Day. There will be talks, debates, and games focused on science, aimed at hospitality businesses, food retailers, educational institutions, and families. During a week where the science behind food [...]

WHO Health Talks on Food Safety will take place on 2–4 June 2025, hosted on the occasion of World Food Safety Day 2025, to explore the theme of this year’s campaign: Food safety: science in action. The series will : highlight how science drives progress in food safety, covering expert advice, burden estimation, surveillance, laboratory systems, and global collaboration; feature leading voices from WHO and partner institutions, showcasing how scientific evidence underpins policies, informs interventions, and contributes to building stronger, safer food systems. Health [...]

On 20 May 2025, a vibrant celebration of World Food Safety Day took place at Tashkent State Medical University (TSMU) under the global theme “Food Safety: Science in Action.” The event was jointly organized by the Committee for Sanitary-Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan, TSMU, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with broad participation from academia, students, public health professionals, and media representatives. The day began with an outdoor session on the [...]

The morning of May 24, 2025, students and faculties slipped on crisp new event T-shirts, posters were hung, and a warm buzz filled the tiered lecture hall. Instead of a typical campus event, it was a celebration of World Food Safety Day, and this year’s theme, “Food Safety: Science in Action,” was brought to life with energy, clarity, and vision. Organized by the China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA) in collaboration with China Agricultural University (CAU), the event [...]

In celebration of World Food Safety Day with the theme "Science in Action", Hacettepe University Food Engineering students, alongside Codex Alimentarius Vice-Chairperson, Dr Betül Vazgeçer participated in an interactive event designed to highlight the critical importance of food safety. The event began with students engaging in group activities to tackle real world food safety challenges through carefully designed case studies. These scenarios reflected pressing food safety issues, ranging from microbial contamination to chemical contamination, encouraging students to assess risks, propose critical control points [...]

TASHKENT, May 19, 2025 A forum event titled "Food Safety: Science in Action" was held at Secondary School No. 9 in the Yunusabad district of Tashkent to mark World Food Safety Day. The forum was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Preschool and School Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the "Zamin" International Public Foundation, the "Eco-Schools Uzbekistan" programme, and the "Yosh fermer" (Young Farmer) project. The event convened specialists [...]

FAO and WHO have launched the first ever World Food Safety Day poster competition! Launched on 7 May, the competition invites all students, from those at school to those studying for university degrees, to design a poster answering the question: “What makes food safe?” The competition acknowledges the key role of education in ensuring that the science of food safety continues to innovate and provide the basis of food safety advice. It also recognizes the enthusiastic engagement of schools and universities in [...]

Under the Japan–International Organisation of Southeast Asian countries (ASEAN) Public-Private Human Resource Development Platform for Food Industry, organized by the ASEAN Secretariat, a Food Value Chain Endowment Lecture was held at University Putra Malaysia (UPM). On Wednesday 8 May, the Japan Food Safety Management Association (JFSM) President, Masanori Kotani gave a lecture on food safety standards, including national standards, international standards, and their requirements, as well as on Sustainable Supply Chains Assessment Platform (SSCAP), an Information and communications technology platform for [...]

To commemorate the 24th Food Safety Day, the Republic of Korea held an official ceremony on 8 May. Since 2002, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) has designated 14 May as Food Safety Day each year to promote public understanding, raise awareness, and foster a shared commitment to food safety. To complement this day, the period 7–21 May has been designated as Food Safety Week, during which a wide range of events and activities are held. From 8 to 9 [...]

The World Food Safety Day teams at FAO and WHO are organizing a webinar for 7 April, where they will outline the theme for this year’s World Food Safety Day celebrations and showcase the materials that have been made available for event organizers this year. Taking part will be FAO’s Director, Division of Agrifood Systems and Food Safety, Corinna Hawkes, who will explain the thinking behind this year’s theme, “Food safety: science in action”. FAO’s Markus Lipp and WHO’s Moez Sanaa [...]