Today is World Food Safety Day!
But first, what is Food Safety?
Food safety is the absence -- or safe, acceptable levels -- of hazards in food that may harm the health of consumers. Food-borne hazards can be microbiological, chemical or physical in nature and are often invisible to the plain eye: bacteria, viruses or pesticide residues are some examples.
Food safety has a critical role in assuring that food stays safe at every stage of the food chain - from production to harvest, processing, storage, distribution, all the way to preparation and consumption.
With an estimated 600 million cases of foodborne illnesses annually, unsafe food is a threat to human health and economies, disproportionally affecting vulnerable and marginalized people, especially women and children, populations affected by conflict, and migrants.
The theme of this year’s inaugural World Food Safety Day invites us to recognize that food safety is everyone’s business. The inaugural World Food Safety Day in New York will present an opportunity to:
- share the outcomes of the two food safety conferences;
- discuss ways in which food safety can incentivize healthy diets; and,
- discuss how the United Nations in New York can further support the efforts to improve food safety.
Moreover, food safety is key to achieving several of the Sustainable Development Goals and World Food Safety Day brings it into the spotlight, to help prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks.
More information:
https://www.un.org/en/events/foodsafetyday/
http://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/world-food-safety-day/about/en/
We have gathered a few speeches in German, English, Spanish, French, Polish and Russian:
DE : 24019, 22433 (Public) ; 27173, 27101, 26582 (My Speech Repository)
EN : 28205, 26261, 23647, 23629, 22003 (Public)
ES : 24292, 22687 (Public) ; 28239 (My Speech Repository)
FR : 28651, 24136, 22438, 21929, 21954 (Public)
PL : 25671 (Public) ; 23130 , 25703, 24283, 23993, 22593 (My Speech Repository)
RU : 27821, 23661 (Public)
Enjoy your practice !