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Yesterday, June 7, the United Nations celebrated World Food Safety Day for the fifth year, under the theme "Food Safety Saves Lives".
Awareness efforts on the day were led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization, along with the Codex Alimentarius Secretariat, which is responsible for international food standards. According to the United Nations news bulletin, of which we received a copy at dawn today, "About 1.6 million people around the world get sick due to eating unsafe food. Eating food contaminated with bacteria, viruses and chemicals is responsible for the infection of more than two hundred diseases."
World Food Safety Day is an opportunity to educate people about food safety issues and to emphasize that access to healthy, safe and nutritious food is a basic human right. This day is also an opportunity to promote solutions and ways to achieve more in the field of food safety, and to discuss collaborative approaches to improve food safety across sectors.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization lead groups of experts and provide scientific advice to develop nutritional standards to protect the health of consumers everywhere