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06/06/2022
Jeffrey LeJeune, FAO Food Safety Officer, and WHO Scientist, Simone Moraes Raszl joined a social media live Q&A event on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on Monday, 6 June 2022, as part of this year’s World Food Safety Day celebrations. Interested to learn more about “safer food, better health”? Read more here  Watch the recording

05/06/2022
For World Food Safety Day this year a fun filter is available for use on Instagram and Facebook. With an interactive food basket on their heads, users are asked practical questions about food safety, to which they answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’ with a tilt of the head, left or right. Test your knowledge about hand hygiene and safe food storage, record your efforts and tag @FAO in your video post. It’s also a way to raise awareness and inspire action on World Food Safety Day. Access the filter On your phone, click on the below links Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ar/477261520869212/ Facebook:...

03/06/2022
Five new leaflets have been produced by FAO and WHO and released today as part of the materials for this year’s observance of World Food Safety Day. The two-page leaflets offer information and advice on food safety for the people in different settings where food is produced or consumed. These include workplaces, traditional food markets, street food vending, schools and daycare centres and the home. Advice includes making use of WHO’s Five Keys to Safer Food, ensuring good hand hygiene, providing employees with facilities to safely store and heat food, and teaching young people how to ensure their food is safe. Access the...

27/05/2022
Jorge Pinto Ferreira, FAO Food Safety Officer, gave a presentation, on 23 May 2022, that was part of a webinar series organized by the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety (USA). The presentation was entitled “Are Food Safety and AMR Friends on Instagram?” The interconnections between several different disciplines, when it comes to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), were highlighted as well as the sometimes not so obvious link between food safety, food security and AMR. It was also a good opportunity to present the ACT (Antimicrobial Codex Texts) project, funded by the Republic of Korea, that FAO is carrying out...

26/05/2022
Together with WHO, FAO will host an online event to mark the Day. The 7 June event will start with video messages from the Directors-General of FAO and WHO, followed by a question-and-answer session with WHO Assistant Director-General Naoko Yamamoto and Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the United Nations in Geneva Dominique Burgeon. They will answer questions about how systemic change can bring safer food and how our behaviour, the way we build food systems and how we organize food supply chains can prevent most foodborne diseases. The second part of the event will feature a panel discussion about...

25/05/2022
Government representatives, farmers, academics and food business operators met for a workshop in Siem Reap, Cambodia on 16-18 May 2022 to review efforts to contain foodborne antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The workshop was part of an FAO project that sees the participation of six countries, of which Cambodia is one, seeking to raise awareness, step up collaboration and stop foodborne AMR by implementing the related Codex standards. We spoke with Jorge Pinto Ferreira, FAO Food Safety Officer, who was there. -          What was the meeting in Siem Reap, Cambodia about? It was a Progressive Management Pathway (PMP) workshop, in this case an activity of the...

24/05/2022
The Global Food Safety Resource (GFSR) recently published an article on the food safety aspects of edible insects, written by Keya Mukherjee, FAO Food Safety Specialist, and Vittorio Fattori, FAO Food Safety Officer. While edible insects can come with various potential benefits – environmental, nutritional and economic – these benefits must be weighed against possible challenges, such as food safety issues. This premise has been covered in detail in an FAO document published in 2021, Looking at edible insects from a food safety perspective. Challenges and opportunities for the sector. Topics such edible insects, seaweeds, cell-based food and...

12/05/2022
Microbes are all around us. Many are beneficial and have been harnessed to transform fruits, vegetables and grains into food and beverages we enjoy like bread, injera, beer, wine, kimchi and chocolate. On the other hand, other microorganisms - including viruses, bacteria and fungi - can cause infections and diseases in humans, animals and plants, too. The health of plants, animals, people and the environment are all inextricably interconnected - a concept known as “One Health”. A prime example of One Health principles is that when plants become infected with microorganisms, they can become sick, not grow as well and thereby...

29/04/2022
Earlier this week, the secretariats of the Joint Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) from both FAO and WHO met at FAO in Rome to discuss ongoing and future work. This is the first time that the secretariats from both organizations met physically since 2020 due to the safety measures of the pandemic. The JEMRA team from FAO and WHO has been very efficient and productive since 2020. They convened four JEMRA and three ad hoc expert meetings virtually, published six technical reports, eight summary reports, one peer review paper and a brochure and infographic in six official UN languages. However,...

28/04/2022
Two years later, as we faced the published report, many of us remembered that distant day when we opened a link to see the call to work on food allergens from FAO and WHO. FAO Food Safety Officer Kang Zhou reflects on the adventure leading up to the compilation of such an international scientific report, likening the style to that of a literary masterpiece by Gabriel García Márquez. Starting from the recollection, or memory, in this case of the call for experts and the call for data. Some work can be done individually, but other work needs people from different regions,...

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