World Food Safety Day 2024
7 Jun 2024 marks the sixth annual World food safety day which will be celebrated with the World Health Organization and Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO). The objective of celebrating world food safety day is to draw attention of people worldwide towards importance of healthy food.
We all need food that is safe. There are many roles we all can play when we buy, store,
cook and eat food to make sure that food stays safe. World Food Safety Day is an excellent opportunity
to learn and do more about food safety and share the message with others.
World Food Safety Day History
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on December 20, 2018, stating that June 7 will be observed globally as World Food Safety Day. The day was aimed to celebrate the countless benefits of safe food. The first World Food Safety Day was celebrated on June 7th , 2019, and every year since then.
Which is World Food Safety Day?
World food safety day is celebrated each year since 2018, in 2024, world food safety day would be on 7th Jun-2024.
What is the theme for Food Safety Day 2024?
Theme of world food safety day 2024 announced by World Health Organization is importance of being prepared for food safety incidents, no matter how mild or severe they can be. Globally world Health organization and other food organizations have already developed food processing and food safety standards, this year emphasize is on ensuring implementation of those standards so that every one have 100% trust on processed food that food they are eating is safe.
World Food Safety Day 2024 Slogan
The slogan for world food safety day 2023 is Food Safety is Everyone’s Business
Why is food safety day important?
Food Safety day celebration is extremely important to create awareness among the societies on importance of food safety. This emphasized that how safe food plays vital role in overall health of the society and how we can reduce the food borne illness cases through preparation and consumption of healthy food.
What is food safety awareness?
Food safety awareness is educating all individuals, manufacturers distributors, suppliers and consumers on safe sourcing, handling, cooking, storage and consumption of foods.
What country has the highest food safety?
As per global food security indes-2022, Finland is the top ranked country with tightened food safety. In top ten countries after Finland, following is the list of countries with great food safety controls.
- Ireland
- Norway
- France
- Netherland
- Japan
- Sweden
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Portugal
How We Can Celebrate World Food Safety Day 2024
Organizations and individuals will join the rest of the world in celebrating the annual World Food Safety Day on June 7 – 2024 and will continue celebrating throughout the month!
World food safety day is relevant to everyone in all facets as Food Safety is everyone’s business. By commemorating world food safety day, we all promise to protect our consumers and delivering the best food product every day, everywhere.
Every organization and every individual needs to join hand with World Health Organization in celebrating this important day and raise the awareness of food safety around the world. We all need to promise delivery of safe Food Now for a Healthy Tomorrow. As stewards of food safety, we must ensure we only grow, process, store, distribute and sell SAFE products to our consumers. Food safety protects our consumers’ health and well-being. All individuals, institutes, organization, Food manufacturing industries can celebrate world food safety day by following means.
World Food Safety Day Activities
- Create awareness on social Media through podcast, YouTube videos or by recording message
- Host zoom call on the day with your collogues and spread the world on importance of food safety culture, food standards and how implementation of food standards can save lives
- Run poster campaign in school, colleges, universities
- Guest Speaker: Invite experts to talk about on food safety, food standards, good manufacturing practices
- Refresher Trainings: Organization must organize refresher trainings on importance of food safety and how we can ensure food safety in day to day operations
- Kahoot Quiz: Kahoot Quiz can be played around question of food safety and its related topics, prizes can be distributed among winners.
Always Remember that Food safety is everyone’s business
