Events on the World Food Safety Day

With the aim of drawing attention and inspiring actions to guarantee food safety and to benefit consumers around the world, the Government of Panama has organized a World Food Safety Day webinar. Discussion will focus on tools that promote food safety and adhere to Codex Alimentarius recommendations while facilitating access to national, regional and international markets. Keynote presentations will come from Spain, Chile and Panama, and will address issues related to food [...]

The FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia and the WHO Regional Office for Europe will present a World Food Safety Day webinar under the title “Food Safety in Europe and Central Asia: Past, present and future” on Friday, 10 June. The event will take place live on Zoom in English and Russian. Recognizing this year’s World Food Safety Day theme, “Safer food, better health" the event will highlight the [...]

Authorities in El Salvador are organizing a 5km run for World Food Safety Day, to “promote the importance of better health and how safe foods contribute to that goal”. The event will take place on 12 June in the capital San Salvador, starting at the Multiplaza shopping mall. The run is organized in collaboration with the Salvadorean Technical Regulation Organization (OSARTEC), the International Regional Organization for Agricultural Health (OIRSA) and the [...]

The regional offices for Africa of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have announced details of their joint World Food Safety Day event. The regional webinar will concentrate on how to ensure safer food for better health in the African region and is organized in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Codex Alimentarius Coordinating Committee for Africa. The 2-and-a-half-hour [...]

The Reseau Alimentaire de l’Est de Montréal (RAEM) has organized a lunchtime discussion about "Food safety: our plate is the best witness!" to which experts have been invited for an “enriching discussion” about how to understand the importance of food safety to health.  The aim is to “feed your mind as well as your stomach.” Organizers wish to promote a sense of collective learning to encourage collective change in food safety [...]

As part of its month-long celebrations of World Food Safety Day, the Food and Drugs Authority of Ghana (FDA) will host a webinar to mark the launch of the National Food Safety Policy in the country. The event is co-organized with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Contributors to the event include the Honourable Kwaku A. [...]