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Raise awareness and promote concrete actions to prevent, detect, and manage foodborne risks.

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The  World Food Safety Day  aims to raise awareness and promote concrete actions to prevent, detect, and manage foodborne risks, thereby supporting human health, safe trade, responsible agriculture, and sustainable development. It is an opportunity to: Raise public awareness about issues related to food safety Show how foodborne illnesses can be prevented through safe food practices Explore collaborative approaches to improve food safety across all sectors Promote solutions and ways to enhance food safety Multiple actors are involved in food supply chains : producers, processors, transporters, distributors, retailers, cooks—and consumers. At every point in the chain, hazards can lead to contamination. Everyone involved has a role and responsibility to uphold food safety. Illness caused by food contaminated with bacteria, viruses, parasites, or toxins. Infectious organisms or their toxins are the most common causes of food poisoning. Food poisoning symptoms may include crampin...

About the Joint FAO/WHO Food Safety Scientific Advice Programme.

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  The FAO and WHO bring together the world’s most eminent independent scientists to carefully evaluate possible food safety hazards. They provide unbiased, evidence-based advice to policymakers, food businesses and consumers, most notably to the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex). Codex elaborates international standards, guidelines and codes of practice on food safety and quality based on the scientific advice provided by this joint FAO/WHO programme. The joint FAO/WHO Scientific Advice Programme consists of several established and ad hoc bodies, which include: JECFA The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives was established in 1956 and will hold its 100th meeting this year. The Committee evaluates the risks associated with food additives and residues of veterinary drugs, contaminants and natural toxins in food and feed. See more on JECFA here: JECFA at FAO | JECFA at WHO . JEMRA The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment was established in ...