ISLAMABAD: World Food Safety Day (WFSD) will be marked on 7 June (Wednesday) across the globe, including Pakistan, to impart awareness to the masses on the necessity of food standards.
Food-borne diseases affect one in ten people worldwide yearly, and food standards could help humans to ensure that what they eat is safe.
World Food Safety Day celebrates its 5th edition this year. Every year, six hundred million people fall sick due to the two hundred different diseases that food can transmit. Populations with limited resources and young people are among the most affected.
Food-borne diseases cause 420,000 deaths every year
Every year, food-borne diseases cause about 420,000 preventable deaths.
The day’s celebration aims to raise awareness about detecting, preventing, and managing risks through promoting debates, solutions, food safety practices, and ways to improve human health, agriculture, trade, and sustainable development.
This year’s day theme is ‘Food Standards Save Lives’. Standards guide processors and farmers on hygienic food production and define maximum levels of contaminants and additives. Governments, regional or intergovernmental bodies, and organizations are responsible for setting such standards.
“Food safety is everyone’s business” is the slogan of WFSD that urges the responsibility of every individual to preserve safe food.
