World Food Safety Day is observed every year on June 7 to draw attention and inspire action to prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks. Food and shelter are the necessities of life. Every human being has a dependency on food (including water), air, and cloth for their existence on earth.
Food is the catalyst for energy in our bodies. It provides all the essential nutrients, carbohydrates, fats, and protein in our bodies to sustain growth. This day contributes to food security, human health, economic prosperity, agriculture, market access, tourism, and sustainable development across the world.
World Food Safety Day 2021:History
The World Health Organisation (WHO ) recognizes the global burden of foodborne diseases, which affect individuals of all ages. Particularly, children under-5 and persons living in low-income countries.
So, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed in 2018 that every 7 June would be World Food Safety Day. In 2020, the World Health Assembly further passed a resolution to strengthen global efforts for food safety to reduce the burden of foodborne disease.
WHO and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) jointly facilitate the observance of World Food Safety Day, in collaboration with the Member States and other relevant organizations.
World Food Safety Day 2021: Date
World food safety day is observed on June 7 to draw global attention to the contamination of food and water. Today is the third anniversary of World Food Safety Day (WFSD).To this day, WHO tries to make efforts to reduce food-borne generated disease globally.
World Food Safety Day 2021: Theme
This year’s theme for World Food Safety Day is ‘Safe food today for a healthy tomorrow’, which focuses on producing and consuming safe food. Having safe food gives an immediate, long-term benefit to people, the planet, and the economy. It also forms a systematic connection between the health of people, animals, plants, the environment, and the economy that will help us meet the needs of the future.
World Food Safety Day 2021: Quotes
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” - Mahatma Gandhi.
"Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food"-Hippocrates
"Food safety involves everybody in the food chain"-Mike, Johanns
"We are going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we are paying attention to food safety issues"-Mike Johanns
"The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body"-Pat Buchanan
"Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food".-Andrew Orwell
"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."-George Orwell
"Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food safety procedures. You would think that everyone involved with food would not want people to get sick from it"-Marion Nestle
"We provide food that customers love, day after date after day. People just want more of it."-
Source: https://www.indiatoday.in/
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