Food safety: a right or a privilege - Understanding the importance of food safety to the food security and nutrition agenda

Food safety: a right or a privilege - Understanding the importance of food safety to the food security and nutrition agenda

Second International Conference On Nutrition (ICN2) - Food Safety Side Event 19 November 2014

Year of publication 2014

Pages 2p.

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Category Brochure

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Synopsis (short abstract) Food security is commonly understood as the state when all people at all times have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, nutritious and safe food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Conceptually, food security is built upon four pillars including food availability, access, utilization and stability. Within this framework, food safety is often wrongly assumed as a given. However, in places where food supplies are insufficient, coping mec hanisms to address food insecurity are often primarily focused on access to food without due considerations for safety. Even in more food-secure countries, limited resources are diverted to ensure the safety of exported food products at the expense of food sold domestically. Individuals facing food insecurity are vulnerable to chemical, biological and other hazards in unsafe foods, which can pose serious, acute and chronic health risks (ranging from diarrhoea to cancer and even death).

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