The 2nd annual Food Safety Summit South Africa will take place on 8-9 June this year to coincide with World Food Safety Day celebrations. Organizers Anelich Consulting and digital marketing platform, Food Focus, are keen to acknowledge lessons learned from the global pandemic, but also to “make sure we pay attention to the real food safety issues facing the food industry.”  The summit will align its theme with that of World Food Safety Day, which this year is “Safe food now for a healthy tomorrow.” The event is aimed particularly at [...]

The Partnership for Food Safety Education, based in the United States of America, is running a Young Cooks Recipe Challenge. Recipes can be submitted until Monday, 3 May 2021. The winner will be announced as part of an online event for World Food Safety Day on 7 June 2021. Young people from the 1st to the 12th grade who are US residents in one of the 50 United States, or the District of Columbia can submit up to two recipes, which [...]

The 16th Annual North American Summit on Food Safety, organized by the Canadian Strategy Institute, will start on World Food Safety Day this year. Aimed at senior food and beverage leaders looking to “benchmark best practices,” the event will focus on building consumer trust and loyalty with innovative safety strategies. Discussion will look at: leveraging improved sanitation methods utilized during COVID-19 to stay compliant with increasingly stringent regulations; gaining a comprehensive understanding of the global food market to maximize sustainability and returns on [...]

For fans of the Food Safety Commission of Japan’s (FSCJ) Kids Box feature, standby for a revamp! The FSJC is planning to introduce new characters to mark World Food Safety Day, so check them out on 7 June at: https://www.fsc.go.jp/kids-box/ https://www.facebook.com/cao.fscj Kids Box introduces young people to different food safety concepts and gives them age-appropriate information on subjects like allergies, food poisoning and food preservation. The FSCJ Chairperson will has also prepared a video address that will be available on the organization’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnQF9MyO0Zd_jsYdj73jaw   [...]

FoodSHAP, the Food Safety and Hygiene Academy of the Philippines, has organized free Food Safety Webinars for the whole month of June, which are aimed at “consumers at home, in school, and in the tourism and hospitality industry.” Starting on World Food Safety Day itself, there will be four webinars in total, covering arrange of subjects connected to some of the World Food Safety Day calls to action:   7 June  Keep it Safe: Food Business Operators Best Practices to Food Safety with speakers [...]

For World Food Safety Day 2021, SSAFE has collaborated with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to develop a series of posters to demonstrate that together, through partnerships, we can do more to deliver safe food. Because food safety is everyone’s business! The six posters, which you can download for free below, cover the following key topics: Ensuring food safety throughout the supply chain: the journey of a vanilla bean Food safety is science-based Global process standardization drives food safety [...]

Environmental Health Australia (EHA) and the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) in the USA have teamed up to host a 24-hour live event for World Food Safety Day. “Have you ever wondered what food safety looks like in other countries?” they are asking prospective viewers – and for those who have, there will be answers from all over the world. The Facebook live event will kick off with an opening address from Frank Yiannas, Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response [...]

To open the week leading up to World Food Safety Day, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the International Regional Organisation for Animal and Plant Health (OIRSA) and the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (CCLAC) organized a two-day webinar to discuss the impact of food contaminants, traceability systems and best agricultural practices on food safety. Attendance figures were high [...]

The Food Safety Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan (AFSA), together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Azerbaijan, continues its series of promotional events, following its initial awareness-raising initiative in food outlets across the country. As part of the ongoing efforts, Azerbaijani officials recorded a series of video addresses. AFSA Chairman, Goshgar Tahmazli, recorded a message in which he emphasized the importance of food safety and then handed over to the head of the FAO [...]

- by Renata Clarke, Subregional Coordinator, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) The food in our supermarkets and our open markets come from numerous countries, and in the case of processed foods, each of the ingredients may themselves from come different countries. It is indeed, a global food web that keeps us fed. While we generally know very little about the people who produce, handle and process the food on the shelves of our supermarkets, for the most part, we [...]