Today, June 7, 2024, is World Food Safety Day.

This year's slogan is: “Food Safety: Prepare for the Unexpected“, underlining the importance of being prepared for situations where there is a potential or confirmed health risk associated with food consumption.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that around the world one in ten people worldwide fall ill from contaminated food each year, that over 200 diseases are caused by eating contaminated food, and that 40% of the foodborne disease burden is carried out by children under 5.

As stated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), celebrating World Food Safety Day is an important way to:

• Raise awareness about food safety issues
• Show how to prevent illness through food safety
• Explore collaborative approaches to improve food safety across sectors
• Promote solutions and ways to improve food safety.

You can read the message for World Food Safety Day here.