Overview
World Food Safety Day (WFSD) - celebrated on June 7 - aims to draw attention to preventing and managing foodborne risks, contributing to food security, human health, economic prosperity, agriculture, market access, tourism, and sustainable development.
Objectives:
To promote global efforts for food safety with the aim of reducing the burden of foodborne diseases
Facts:
- Access to adequate amounts of safe and nutritious food is key to sustaining life and promoting good health.
- Unsafe foods that contain harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites, or chemicals cause more than 200 diseases - ranging from diarrhea to cancers.
- An estimated 600 million - approximately 1 in 10 people in the world - fall ill after eating contaminated food and 420,000 die each year, resulting in the loss of 33 million healthy life years (DALYs).
- Diarrheal diseases are the most common diseases resulting from the consumption of contaminated food, causing 550 million people to become ill and 230,000 to die each year.
- Food safety, nutrition and safe food are closely linked. Unsafe food causes a vicious cycle of disease and malnutrition, particularly affecting infants, young children, the elderly and the sick.
Official Date:
Globally: June 7th, 2023
Locally: Dhuʻl-Qiʻdah 18th, 1444H
Theme:
Safer food, better health