The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is helping to improve public health and food safety in Zimbabwe.
The FAO has trained environmental health personnel in the country on food safety risk
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The first event for a group of food safety professionals created by the World Health Organization (WHO) focused on the role of science in the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
The WHO’s Food Safety Community of Practice
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The majority of people think food is safe in Germany and that safety is getting better, according to a survey.
More than half of survey respondents rated food as safe or very safe. This is
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Three suggestions have been made to improve a food safety framework that sets out how things will work in the United Kingdom now that it has left the European Union.
The Common Framework Scrutiny Committee
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Members of a parliamentary committee have written to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) about the future of food safety rules in the United Kingdom after leaving the European Union.
The Common Frameworks Scrutiny Committee asked
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The FAO and the WHO have put out draft guidance on microbiological risk assessment for food for public comment.
It is intended to provide guidance and a framework for carrying out each of the four
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Salmonella in food is one of the issues that tops consumer awareness — coming in at 95 percent — but more than three quarters of Germans still consider food to be safe, according to a
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Starting the development of guidelines to control Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in certain foods was one of the decisions made by the Codex Alimentarius Commission at its annual meeting in Geneva this week.
The work
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