The World Health Organization (WHO) and Codex are scheduled to hold an event next month to mark their respective anniversaries.
2023 is the 60th anniversary of the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the 75th anniversary of WHO.
In 1963, following the endorsement of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and
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Unsafe food may sometimes only lead to mild acute symptoms but it can also cause chronic illness like cancers, or affect nutritional intake, according to experts.
A webinar was held discussing the burden of contaminated food as part of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Health Talks around World Food
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has set out a plan that it hopes will help reduce the burden of foodborne disease.
WHO officially launched its food safety strategy for 2022 to 2030 this week and pledged support for countries to implement it. The agency was asked to update a 2002
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued two more calls as part of work to estimate the burden of foodborne diseases.
WHO is seeking support from independent consultants or groups of experts with experience to undertake systematic reviews and other studies on foodborne illness.
The first area is a review
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Researchers have assessed the role of certain food types in causing illness from different pathogens in three African countries.
They presented attribution estimates for Campylobacter, enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC), Shiga-toxin producing E. coli, Salmonella, Cryptosporidium, Brucella, and Mycobacterium bovis for beef, dairy, poultry and vegetable products in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Rwanda.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for help as part of work to estimate the burden of foodborne disease.
WHO is seeking support from independent consultants or groups of experts with relevant experience to undertake systematic reviews and other studies on foodborne illness. The process is part of collecting
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a handbook for countries to measure their foodborne disease burden.
The guide aims to help nations identify food safety system needs and data gaps so they can strengthen national infrastructure and better protect public health.
It does not cover chemical hazards, including food
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is looking for a consultant to help update estimates on the burden of foodborne diseases.
The agency’s Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) published the first global report on this subject in 2015. This showed foodborne diseases caused 600 million illnesses and 420,000 deaths
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to update figures on the burden of foodborne diseases by 2025.
At a meeting of the WHO Executive Board in February in Switzerland, experts discussed food safety under “accelerating efforts on food safety” and recommended adoption of a resolution on “strengthening efforts on
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