Anyone, rich or poor, old or young, old or young, should have a healthy diet. Since we must be able to ensure that the food we eat is safe for us, World Food Safety Day, June 7 focuses on the safety process. The day's aim is to inspire people to help prevent, detect, and manage food-borne risks. A concerted effort to make and keep food safe contributes to food safety, human health, economic growth, agriculture, market access, tourism, and sustainable growth.
Consumers, manufacturers, and government will be able to honed in on a subject that is often dismissed. Food safety isn't apparent until you become sick. Anybody who has had food poisoning knows this.
A food-borne disease epidemic has emerged in two or two cases of a similar disease resulting from the ingestion of a common food..
With an estimated 600 million cases of food-borne illnesses annually, unsafe food is a threat to human health and economies, particularly women and children, populations that have been affected by conflict and migrants. According to an estimated three million people around the world – in both developed and emerging countries – die every year from food and waterborne disease.
Learn more about food safety by visiting the Partnership for Food Safety Education's website.
More can also be learned on the World Food Safety Day website, as well as other aspects.
To track on social media, use #WorldFoodSafetyDay to track.
History
Several countries have designated food safety for two decades, with a special day in two decades. The United Nations declared June 7 to be World Food Safety Day in 2019 as a time to celebrate the numerous health benefits of safe food.
Every day is breakfast, every snack, every time dishes are made, whenever foods are grown, manufactured, and transported – all of these are times when food safety must be prioritized.
