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Webinar report: World Food Safety Day 2020 – Food safety in the “new normal”

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Bangkok, Thailand ;

Pages 38 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Booklet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) In advance of the World Food Safety Day, four international organizations, namely the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO), jointly organized a webinar on 3 June 2020 and discussed what the “new normal”, will bring to the area of food safety in Asia and the Pacific. Nearly 1 000 people joined the webinar. While during the “new normal”, food safety has benefitted from an increased awareness on good practices of personal hygiene, in the future, regulatory frameworks that have a long-term vision and that will ensure consumers’ protection will need to be put in place. In order to facilitate access to safe foods to all, the implementation of regulations will need to be delegated to the industry sector, and the active and informed participation of the consumers will be more critical than ever. Furthermore, recognizing responsibilities and integrating them with those of other stakeholders' could be a key approach to tackle emerging food safety issues. The next efforts would optimally focus on the provision of a good and constant education and communication to the different food safety stakeholders, with the theme tagline of the World Food Safety Day, “food safety, everyone’s business”.

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