In celebration of this year’s World Food Safety Day, Codex has published a “case study” showing how one country used Codex texts to resolve a food safety outbreak. In line with this year’s World Food Safety Day theme, “food safety: prepare for the unexpected,” the story recounts how Honduras worked with the FAO/WHO International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN) and food safety authorities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to identify the source of an outbreak of [...]

Únete a nosotros en esta ocasión especial para aprender acerca de las mejores prácticas en etiquetado de alimentos y cómo puede marcar la diferencia en la protección de la salud de los consumidores. Descubre cómo el etiquetado adecuado puede prevenir riesgos y promover una alimentación segura. ¡Regístrate ahora y únete a la conversación sobre la importancia de la inocuidad alimentaria en nuestro webinar gratuito "La Inocuidad Alimentaria: Utilidad del Etiquetado de los Alimentos" el próximo Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de [...]

Ministerio de Comercio e Industrias, sede de la Oficina Nacional del Codex Alimentarius Panamá, Punto de Contacto y Secretaría Ejecutiva, en coordinación con La Dirección General de Normas y Tecnología Industrial y el Consejo Nacional de Acreditación, le invita cordialmente a participar en la celebración del Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de Alimentos y el Día Mundial de la Acreditación 2024. ¡Prepárate para vivir una experiencia única! Este año, en Panamá, celebramos el día de la inocuidad de los alimentos junto [...]

By KEMBOU Etienne, Technical Officer Food Safety and Nutrition, WHO Multi-Country Assignment Teams (MCAT);Dr LAOUALI ABDOU Aissatou and RABO Souleymane, Food Safety and Nutrition Team WHO Country Office Niger;DIOFFO Salou, Codex Contact Point, Ministry of Public Health, Population and Social Affairs Niger As a prelude to the commemoration of World Food Safety Day 2024, thirty people, including representatives of administrative sectors, Civil Society Organizations, technical and financial partners and academics, were briefed on the organization, institutional structure, functioning, roles and [...]

Por cuarto año consecutivo, este 2024, la Oficina Regional de la Organización de las Naciones Unidad para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO RLC), la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OMS/OPS-Panaftosa), el Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), el Organismo Internacional Regional de Sanidad Agropecuaria (OIRSA) y Ecuador como Presidente del Comité Coordinador FAO/OMS para América Latina y El Caribe (CCLAC), unen fuerzas para celebrar el Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de Alimentos (DMIA) con un seminario virtual [...]

El Ministerio de Salud del Perú (MINSA), a través de la Dirección General de Sanidad Ambiental e Inocuidad de los Alimentos (DIGESA) y en conjunto con el Ministerio de Desarrollo Agrario y Riego, a través del Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agraria del Perú (SENASA), así como el Ministerio de la Producción, a través de la Agencia Nacional de Sanidad Pesquera (SANIPES), han organizado una “Jornada Educativa por el Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos en el Perú”. El [...]

The Polish initiative, Foodfakty, will celebrate World Food Safety Day, for the fourth year this year. The 2024 event will be held under the theme "be prepared for the unexpected. The theme emphasizes the importance of being prepared for food safety-related events, regardless of their severity. Food incidents can occur due to mistakes, inadequate controls, fraud, or natural events. Being ready to handle them requires dedicated and coordinated efforts from policymakers, food safety authorities, farmers, and especially food business operators, all [...]

The National Food Safety Authority (NFSA) of the Arab Republic of Egypt commemorated the sixth World Food Safety Day this year in on 29 and 30 May. As part of NFSA efforts to be active and collaborative on a regional level, the event marked the NFSA’s launch of its Egyptian Global Food Safety Symposium (EGFoSS) in the presence of H.H Ali Meselhy, Minister of Supply and experts and industry professionals in the field of food safety and agricultural industries from [...]

By: Maryann Kindiki- CCP, Kenya Kenya is in top gear in its preparations for World Food Safety Day 2024. On 30 April the national planning committee convened to engage media for a briefing on the theme of this year’s World Food Safety Day commemoration. This is aimed at guiding the media on the theme to ensure informed reporting. The planning committee is chaired by the Ministry of Health and comprises government agencies, academia and research, private sector alliances and associations, media and [...]

On 15 May, Masanori Kotani, President and Secretary General of Japan’s Food Safety Management Association (JFSM) delivered an online lecture to second-year students at Hokkaido Shizunai Agricultural High School on food safety and the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) “5 keys to safer food”, information on the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points food food safety system and on the World Food Safety Day theme for 2024 and slogan. Following the last year’s lecture, the session included quizzes, which helped make [...]