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Новости о Всемирном дне безопасности пищевых продуктов

Food safety authority in Cabo Verde to hold a live discussion for World Food Safety Day

In Cape Verde, the Independent Regulatory Authority for Health (Entidade Reguladora Independente da Saúde), ERIS, has joined the celebration of World Food Safety Day with an online event under the theme of the year "Safe Food Now for a Healthy Tomorrow. In this context, the Independent Regulatory Authority for Health plans to launch the "Manual of Good Hygiene Practices for Food Establishments".   The opening address will be given by Dr. Eduardo Tavares, Chairman of the Board of ERIS Administration. The first panel will see Raul Garcia [...]
07 June 2021

Morocco faculty to host World Food Safety Day conference

To mark World Food Safety Day, the Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Tanger will hold a physical conference under the theme of “Safe food now for a healthy tomorrow.” The 7 June event will consist of three subject areas: “Ionization technology for the development of Moroccan agriculture” from Dr Said Zantar of the Tangier National Institute of Agronomic Research “Food safety: towards anti-microbial and biodegradable packaging” from Professor Mounir Hassani Zerrouk, of the Polydisciplinary Faculty of Larache “Bioresources at the service of the [...]
07 June 2021

World Food Safety Day workshop to address food safety and health issues in the Kyrgyz Republic

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) office in the Kyrgyz Republic in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Social Development is organizing a World Food Safety Day workshop aimed at a range of stakeholders, including food producers and food businesses, trade networks, regional divisions of the Department of Disease Prevention and State Sanitary & Epidemiological Surveillance and medical practitioners. The 30-person workshop will be a part of FAO’s project on “Assessment and improvement of institutional capacities on food [...]
07 June 2021

Chile plans three-pronged approach for World Food Safety Day

Chile’s agency for food safety and quality (ACHIPIA) is planning to celebrate World Food Safety Day 2021 with a creative approach aimed at: raising public awareness about food safety educating on disease prevention through food safety discussing collaborative approaches to food safety in all sectors promoting solutions and ways of improving food safety. The 2021 celebrations will be targeting three sections of the population in different ways and on three separate days. A ‘women’s’ webinar entitled “Mujeres e inocuidad alimentaria: muchos nueces, poco ruido” will [...]
07 June 2021

The Government of Panama will host a World Food Safety Day webinar to inspire action on food safety

The Government of Panama is planning to inspire action on food safety this World Food Safety Day, with a webinar titled “Safe food now for a healthy tomorrow.” The 7 June event will address issues related to good food handling and, with presentations from Costa Rica and Colombia, discussion will also explore international challenges in food safety, as well as national, regional and international policies in favour of safe and nutritious food. Dr Jessie Usaga from the National Center for Food Science [...]
07 June 2021

Ecuador webinar to host national and international experts

The Agency for the Regulation and Control of Phytosanitary and Animal Health (AGROCALIDAD) in Ecuador is running a competition and hosting a webinar for World Food Safety Day, under the themes of “food safety is everyone’s business” and “safe food now for a healthy tomorrow.” The event will have two parts to it, with Rommel Betancourt, AGROCALIDAD’s food safety coordinator opening the proceedings with a word about World Food Safety Day. Thereafter, Agustin Zimmermann, the representative for the Food and Agriculture Organization [...]
07 June 2021

#KeepFoodSafe on TikTok

For World Food Safety Day (7 June 2021), WHO and FAO are jointly launching a #KeepFoodSafe challenge on TikTok to educate TikTok generation about safe food handling behaviours. If you love food, join the #KeepFoodSafe challenge! All you have to do is to ‘duet’ with WHO/FAO videos showing how you use one of the keys. Each year, 1 in 10 people get sick from unsafe food. While food safety is a shared responsibility, individual consumers and food handlers play a huge role in preventing foodborne diseases. The [...]
07 June 2021

Guatemala to host World Food Safety Day webinar

The Codex Guatemala office is inviting interested parties to attend a webinar for World Food Safety Day, which is organized under this year’s theme “Safe food now for a healthy tomorrow.” The free event will address two key subject areas: the relevance of laboratory analysis to keeping food safe in the Guatemalan food industry food safety is everyone’s business The webinar will take place on World Food Safety Day itself: 7 June. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAod-mhqD8sH9WL3o9unSdrFBz75ShSqubW Date and time: 7 June, 08:00 (14:00 GMT)
07 June 2021

Costa Rica Ministry to host World Food Safety Day webinar

The Costa Rican Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Commerce will host a webinar for World Food Safety Day under this year’s theme "Safe food now for a healthy tomorrow." The 7 June event will include recognized national and international panelists who will contribute to two sessions: The role of intestinal microbiota in the advance towards safe and healthier foods The process of normalization and regulation of nanotechnology and nano materials as prevention of nanotoxicity The event will be opened by Victoria Hernández Mora, [...]
07 June 2021

Spanish technology centre targets alumni to explain updated EU food safety regulation

The technology centre, AINIA, based in Valencia, Spain, is targeting alumni of their food-related courses in a World Food Safety Day webinar organized for 7 June. Students at AINIA are taught about the responsibility of taking food safety seriously and, in particular, courses at AINIA cover relevant legislation and regulations. This webinar will address recent changes to the key European food hygiene regulation, (EC) 852/2004, which has been modified to bring it into closer alignment with FAO/WHO Codex texts. Food quality and [...]
07 June 2021