For those, wealthy or poor, old or young, old or young, healthy eating is a goal. World Food Safety Day, June 7, focuses on the safety process because we must be able to ensure the food we eat is safe for us. The day's aim is to encourage people to take action to help prevent, detect, and manage food-borne risks. Food security, human health, economic growth, agriculture, market access, tourism, and sustainable growth are all linked to food safety, human health, economic growth, agricultural production, and sustainable growth.
Consumers, farmers, and governments will have the opportunity to focus on a topic that is often dismissed. Food safety is not apparent until you become sick. Anyone who has had food poisoning knows this.
A food-borne disease epidemic is identified as the occurrence of 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. 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. Every year, an estimated three million people around the world – in both developed and emerging countries – die from food and waterborne disease.
Check out the website of the Partnership for Food Safety Education to learn more about how to make food safe..
More can also be found on the World Food Safety Day website, as well as more.
On social media, use #WorldFoodSafetyDay to track.
History
Many countries have designated food security as a special day for two decades. In 2019, the United Nations declared June 7 to be World Food Safety Day as a time to celebrate the numerous health benefits of healthy food.
Food safety must be prioritized at any meal, every snack, every time dishes are made, whenever foods are grown, produced, and transported – all of these are times when food safety must be prioritized.
