To celebrate this year’s World Food Safety Day 2025 under the theme “Science in Action,” the International Dairy Federation will host a webinar highlighting the vital role of dairy processing in sustainably producing safe and nutritious dairy products. The event is titled "The role of processing of dairy products in achieving food safety and the science behind it", and features three presentations on: History and evolution of heat treatments of milk demonstrating safety through science, with David Everett  Microbial monitoring in a cheese processing [...]

A World Food Safety Day event is being organized by the General Coordination of Food Safety at the regulatory and supervisory body for the production, marketing and consumption of agricultural products in Ecuador, AGROCALIDAD, which is attached to the Ministry of Agriculture of Ecuador. The event is organized with the support of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), as the IX Food Safety Seminar, with the theme "Science in Action." Date: Wednesday 4 JuneTime: 08:30–13:30 Ecuador timeVenue: Auditorium of the [...]

To celebrate World Food Safety Day 2025 the Faculty of Chemical Sciences at the National University of Asunción in Paraguay will host an in-person seminar highlighting scientific approaches to ensuring food safety across different industries. The seminar is titled “Seminario de Inocuidad Alimentaria 2025 – La Ciencia en Acción”. Organized by Prof. Mag. Vanessa Martínez Cuevas, the seminar will open with remarks in recognition of World Food Safety Day, followed by the screening of a video created by students from the Hygiene and Food Safety [...]

The Codex Committee on General Principles (CCGP) will hold a World Food Safety Day side event to the main CCGP meeting, which will take place 2–6 June. The event, titled “Driving innovation in tomorrow’s risk assessment” will explore advancing innovation in regulatory science, which is critical to support effective scientific advice and decision-making. The side event aims to present recent developments in risk assessment methodologies and showcase different case studies in the context of various food risks (microbiological, chemical and food [...]

FAO and WHO in the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean regions have planned a series of 11 webinars to take place over June, July and August. The second of these is titled: Evidence in Food SafetyRisk Benefit Assessment for informed decision making This webinar aims at introducing the approach used to evaluate both the potential benefits and the potential risks associated with food products or safety interventions. The event will serve as a platform for the audience to ask the experts about this [...]

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 [...]