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Food Safety, Everyone’s Business

in the World Food Safety Day

Everyone has the right to safe, nutritious and sufficient food. Still today, almost one in ten people in the
world fall ill after eating contaminated food. When food is not safe, children cannot learn, adults cannot work.
Human development cannot take place.

Safe food is critical to promoting health and ending hunger, two WFSD (June 7 ) reinforces the call to strengthen commitment to
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of the primary goals of the 2030 Agenda. There is no food security scale up food safety made by the Addis Ababa Conference and the
without food safety and in a world where the food supply chain has Geneva Forum under the umbrella of “The Future of Food Safety”
become more complex, any adverse food safety incident may have in 2019.
global negative effects on public health, trade and the economy. To combat ongoing changes in climate, global food production
Yet food safety is taken for granted. It is often invisible until you and supply systems that affect consumers, industry and the planet
get food poisoning. Unsafe food containing harmful bacteria, viruses, itself, everyone needs to consider food safety now and tomorrow.
parasites or chemical substances, causes more than 200 diseases
– ranging from diarrhoea to cancer. What to do to make a sustained difference in food
This international day is an opportunity to strengthen efforts to safety…
ensure that the food we eat is safe. Whether you produce, process, This action-oriented campaign will promote global food safety
sell or prepare food, then you have a role in keeping it safe. awareness and call upon countries and decision makers, the private
Everybody along the food chain is responsible for food safety. sector, civil society, UN organizations and the general public to take
For this inaugural WFSD all stakeholders are invited to raise action.
global awareness about food safety in general and to highlight that We are inviting all players in the farm-to-fork continuum to get
everyone involved in food systems has a part to play. This year involved: FAO, WHO and Codex Member Countries and their

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