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Journée internationale de la sécurité sanitaire des aliments: actualités

National Quality Association of Tanzania (NQAT) miniseries webinar

On 9 June 2021, the National Quality Association of Tanzania (NQAT), a member-based association, which acts as a National Quality Platform for sustainable development, held a miniseries webinar about World Food Safety Day.   The miniseries which will be held every two weeks, was moderated by Mr Safari Fungo.   Among the concerns and recommendations that were raised were:  The importance of strengthening advocacy on consumer protection.  It is important to put emphasis on the implementation of food labeling i.e., work on putting warning signs on certain foods that may cause harm to the consumer.  The importance of stakeholders in the food safety [...]
09 June 2021

World Food Safety Day given a high profile in Tanzania

In Tanzania, representatives of government, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) were all active across mainstream and social media on 7 June to promote World Food Safety Day. In a televised press conference, Rose Shija Muhangwa, on behalf of the WHO representative to Tanzania and Bwana Gervas Kaisi, Acting Director of Quality Control at the Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) held a joint press conference in which they each highlighted the collective responsibility of keeping food safe. “Citizens have [...]
09 June 2021

World Food Safety Day in North Macedonia

As a national Codex Contact Point for North Macedonia, the Food and Veterinary Agency joined the global campaign in the celebration of June 7 - World Food Safety Day. The aim of the initiative was to bring together different stakeholders involved in the food chain and through a public debate to raise awareness for food safety as well as inform the public about the importance of preventing and managing the risks associated with food, promoting health, economic prosperity, agricultural development [...]
09 June 2021

A Sustainable Development Goal indicator for food safety?

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are helping to measure global progress towards a more equitable future as part of the United Nations’ “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” Food safety is integral to food security (SDG2), to health and wellbeing (SDG3) and to economic security (SDGs 1 and 8) – and yet of the 247 indicators established to measure SDG advances, there is none for food safety. On the occasion of World Food Safety Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of [...]
09 June 2021

Australia kicks off World Food Safety Day with a global outlook

One of the first World Food Safety Day events this year took place in Australia in an event jointly hosted by Environmental Health Australia (EHA) and the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) of the United States of America. The aim of the event was, over a 24-hour period, to talk with food safety regulators from around the world to get an idea of the different – and similar – challenges, approaches and practices encountered in different countries. The Australian half of [...]
09 June 2021

Tanzania World Food Safety Day webinar “The Essence of Improving Food Safety”

The National Quality Association of Tanzania (NQAT) has issued an invitation for a series of webinars with the World Food Safety Day theme of “Safe food now for a healthy tomorrow.” During the webinars, prominent industry leaders and professionals will share their experiences -including challenges, opportunities and success stories - relating to the domain of food quality. The webinars will offer practical insights on how to improve food safety, with the aim of promoting quality awareness and knowledge in industry, commerce, [...]
09 June 2021

Three events in Colombia to celebrate World Food Safety Day

The Government of Colombia is organizing three events over three days to mark World Food Safety Day. The events will cover some fundamental issues around the subject of food safety. On 9 June, Dr Margarita Corrales, a specialist in food safety for the Pan American Health Organization will speak on “Microbiological Risks of Foods - Focus on the Consumer.” A forum discussion has been arranged for the following day, where Carla Yojana Portillo Carrascal, an expert in animal production and the [...]
09 June 2021

PolySafe food safety webinar in Romania

On 8 June 2021, Romania held a webinar 'From raw material to product' on the theme of food safety among food companies. Several representatives from food industry companies in Romania, an official from the Romanian National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority and an official from the Romanian Veterinary and Food Safety Directorate held presentations about the measures they implement to ensure food safety inside the process chain, the overall food safety management, and defense, as well as the special measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. The discussions also [...]
08 June 2021

La FAO, l’OMS et le Codex commémorent la Journée internationale de la sécurité sanitaire des aliments 2021 avec une discussion virtuelle sur la science

Le directeur général de la FAO QU Dongyu et le directeur général de l’OMS Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ont, par le biais de messages vidéo au début d’une réunion Zoom en ligne également diffusée sur le web le 7 juin 2021, appelé de leurs vœux la mise en place d’efforts à l’échelle internationale pour s’assurer que le monde entier ait accès à des aliments sains pour un avenir sain. «La sécurité sanitaire des aliments est essentielle pour parvenir à des systèmes agro-alimentaires plus efficaces, [...]
08 June 2021

World Food Safety Day celebrated in Georgia

In celebration of World Food Safety Day, the National Food Agency of Georgia has presented its annual report. The event was opened by Mr. Levan Davitashvili, the Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia, who highlighted the achieved results and new challenges and thanked FAO and other international organizations for their continuous support in ensuring food safety in the country. "I would not exaggerate to state that in terms of food safety, the ministry has been working continuously, consistently and [...]
08 June 2021