This year, the African Union Commission (AUC) joins the rest of the world to commemorate the fourth World Food Safety Day with a two-day virtual event “Innovative approaches to raising food safety standards and enhancing regulation in the informal food sector in Africa”. The celebrations is used to draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks, thereby contributing to human health, food and nutrition security, economic prosperity, market access, and sustainable development. The event will be conducted [...]

The Argentinian Food Safety Commission (Comisión Argentina de Inocuidad Alimentaria - CAIA) has organized a webinar for World Food Safety Day, in collaboration with the Argentinian Microbiology Association (the Asociación Argentina de Microbiología – AAM). The event will take place on 6 June. CAIA’s President, Fabiana Guglielmone, and Vice-President, Fernando Gallegos Sola will open a programme comprising five presentations: -        "Thinking about the future of food safety" from Marisa Caipo, Food Safety and Quality Officer of the Regional Office for Latin America and [...]

QFS (Quality Food Safety) Corporation in Ecuador is organizing a week-long series of World Food Safety Day webinars aimed at “focusing on best practices and safety processes to prevent foodborne illness and to ensure consumers [can access] safe and healthy food”. Date & time: 6-10 June 16:00 - 18:00 Ecuador time (23:00 7 June – 01:00 8 June CEST) Register here:  https://forms.gle/Bu9XFskMC4GJVNNv6 Read more: https://www.facebook.com/QFSCorporationConsultora/  

Costa Rica’s Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Commerce will host a World Food Safety Day webinar on 6 June, under the theme of “Safer food, better health”. The event will include three discussions, each of which will be followed by a question-and-answer session. The first discussion will look at “surveillance of mycotoxins”, with Alejandra Acosta and Andrea Brenes Soto from the Animal Nutrition Research Center (CINA) at the University of Costa Rica, and will be moderated by Ana Cristina Briones from [...]

Poland’s professional food quality and safety portal, Food Fakty, will be producing a “Food Fakty Week” again this year, during the week of World Food Safety Day. In close alignment with the goals and calls to action of World Food Safety Day and the “Four Betters” shaping the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the week of online events will include: Monday 6 June A series of presentations from the private sector, Professor Małgorzata Wiśniewska from the [...]

The Salvadoran Agency for Technical Regulation (OSARTEC) as Contact Point for the Codex Alimentarius in El Salvador has coordinated with the national academic sector to raise awareness about food safety. The efforts involved the development of multimedia content in celebration of World Food Safety Day, which highlighted the importance of food safety and its benefits at the national level. More than fifty students from the following universities participated in this activity. All these students are pursuing food careers. They shared the [...]

As part of this year’s World Food Safety Day celebrations, the World Health Organization (WHO), together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), will host a social media live Q&A event for the public on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The event speakers, WHO Scientist, Simone Moraes Raszl, and Jeffrey LeJeune, FAO Food Safety Officer, will answer questions around this year’s theme of “safer food, better health”. Tune in to FAO and WHO social media channels on Monday 6 [...]

To raise awareness of World Food Safety Day 2022, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) will share a number of images on its Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram pages. The images feature quotes from a range of stakeholders within the Irish food industry from customers to inspectors to interest groups to food businesses. Each stakeholder is answering the question ‘What does food safety mean to me’? “This campaign showcases the passionate, innovative approach that is taken to food safety in Ireland,” the organizers explained. [...]

The Bahamas Agricultural Health and Food Safety Authority (BAHFSA) is planning World Food Safety Day events starting on 4 June at the Marathon Mall. The local event will involve a showcase of poster finalists, free “health checks”, a food safety display and “prizes and surprises”. This all-day event is the first of a series of events planned to raise awareness about food safety in the Bahamas, leading up to World Food Safety Day itself on 7 June. Date & time: 4 June [...]

Food safety is everyone’s business, and to underline this fact, new information leaflets have been released in advance of this year’s World Food Safety Day. The leaflets examine five settings where food is sold or consumed: workplaces, traditional food markets, street food vending, schools and daycare centres and the home. Each leaflet explains why food safety is important in that environment and then explains easy ways for authorities, producers and consumers to keep food safe. They all end with an idea [...]