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World Food Safety Day - 07 June.

World Food Safety Day is an annual celebration to draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks. 

A concerted effort to make and keep food safe contributes to food security, human health, economic prosperity, agriculture, market access, tourism, and sustainable development.

Celebrating World Food Safety Day will give consumers, producers, and governments a chance to focus on an issue that is often taken for granted. Food safety is invisible until you get ill. Anyone who has had food poisoning knows this.

The occurrence of two or more cases of a similar illness resulting from the ingestion of a common food is known as a food-borne disease outbreak.

For two decades, various nations have marked food safety with a special day. In 2019, the United Nations declared June 7 to be World Food Safety Day as a time to celebrate the myriad benefits of safe food.

The day stresses every meal, every snack, every time dishes are prepared, whenever foods are grown, produced, and transported – all of these are moments when food safety must be prioritized.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations which sponsors World Food Safety Day has designated “Food Standards Save Lives” as the theme for 2023. This year’s theme coincides with the 60th anniversary of Codex Alimentarius, a collection of food standards, guidelines and codes of practice adopted by the international Codex Alimentarius Commission (with which FDA participates across many committees) to encourage governments and food safety advocates around the world to focus on the importance of applying safety standards in every aspect of food production—from the source to the table. FDA scientists actively participate in the Codex Alimentarius committees and FDA also considers Codex standards when developing our U.S. national food safety standards.

Source: www.un.org

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