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 [...]

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 [...]

The Master of Science in Food Safety at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, is organizing an event for World Food Safety Day this year, which includes three conferences on issues of safety systems in primary production, use of whole genome sequencing in food safety and probiotics and postbiotics. In addition, there will be a presentation of the theses of the postgraduate students through the contest "My thesis in three minutes" in order to make known in a brief and entertaining way, [...]

The Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS) has organized an Expert Meeting for Healthy and Safe Food and a video to celebrate World Food Safety Day on 7 June. The event is organized in cooperation with the Kazakh Agro Technical University, named after S.Seifullin, in Astana, Kazakhstan. Experts from seven countries will participate in the session: Kazakakhstan, Sultanate of Oman, Pakistan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Türkiye, Tajikistan. The keynote speakers at the event will be Director General of the IOFS, Professor Yerlan [...]

On 7 June, World Food Safety Day, FAO and WHO will host a hybrid high-level event where participants can learn how food safety standards contribute to saving lives. The event will expand on this year’s theme for World Food Safety Day, “Food standards save lives”. The event will open with remarks by QU Dongyu, FAO Director-General, and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. During the 75-minute event, FAO’s Deputy Director-General, Maria Helena Semedo will moderate a short panel discussion with ministers for agriculture [...]

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) office in Pakistan is planning a range of World Food Safety Day activities in collaboration and consultation with the Animal Husbandry Commissioner Office of Pakistan, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Pakistan, the Fleming Fund, and the Islamabad Food Authority. The events focus on issues related to foodborne antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and include: TV and radio appearances. an “Awareness Walk” on 7 June with representatives from the Islamabad Food Authority and the World Health [...]

The Ministry of Health in Botswana will host a World Food Safety Day event on the 7 June 2023. The Minister of Health, the Honourable Dr Edwin G. Dikoloti will deliver a keynote address and the Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Local Government and Rural Development will give Remarks. Meanwhile, the Minister of Entrepreneurship will give closing remarks. The target audience is Food Business Operators, consultants, laboratories, packaging material suppliers etc, to sensitize them on food regulation and standards, as [...]

The Agriculture Production Department of the Anton de Kom University educates people (students and stakeholders) on the importance of having access to safe food, and issues that can influence food safety. The department aims to increase visitors’ awareness about food safety in an on-campus ‘Food Safety Day Event’. The event topic will be the department’s contribution to knowledge about food safety. Students, staff and lecturers/researchers of the Agricultural Department will celebrate the day by sharing their knowledge with other interested persons [...]

In commemoration of World Food Safety Day 2023, the Chumbagua Sugar Company (Compañía Azucarera Chumbagua) will hold a conference under the slogan "Food standards save lives", with the participation of the members of the food safety team who direct the processes of the different stages of the sugar production value chain. They will explain the importance of applying good practices to ensure safe food. The event will be aimed at operational personnel who, in addition to participating in the conference, will [...]

With the World Food Safety Day guide made available in Japanese, food safety authorities in Japan express support and commitment to World Food Safety Day. The Food Safety Commission of Japan (FSCJ), aiming to raise consumer awareness about food safety, has taken a series of initiatives including: Providing a video message from the Chairperson of FSCJ, Dr Shigeki Yamamoto, calling for participation in World Food Safety Day activities, with English captions available on Youtube; Publishing a “Kids Box”, which is the FSCJ’s reading [...]