The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is to develop a new food safety strategy.
The Committee on Agriculture (COAG), held virtually from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2, 2020, agreed to support
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The Coronavirus pandemic, why producing food is not like selling T-shirts, and technology’s role in outbreak investigation were highlights of a talk today by a food safety expert at the World Health Organization.
Peter Ben
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Work on food hygiene, allergens and support of food trade in Africa have been adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which recently met online for the first time in its history.
The first part of
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FAO and WHO experts are to look again at Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat (RTE) foods.
The move by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) is due to developments in
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The COVID-19 pandemic dominated World Food Safety Day events, according to a new report.
The second UN World Food Safety Day in June saw initiatives reshaped for a “new normal” that looks set to affect
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is requesting data on methylmercury and total mercury in certain fish species.
Fish types for which maximum limits have already been established are excluded.
People are mainly exposed to methylmercury
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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
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for experts to advise the body’s work on food safety.
WHO will update the global strategy for food safety: safer food for better health and aims to deliver
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified key priorities to improve food safety in the next five years in South East Asia.
The Framework for Action on Food Safety in the WHO South-East Asia Region
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The first sets of food safety risk communication and country-specific action plans to tackle the significant public health problem of foodborne parasites have been identified in Asia.
They were discussed at a regional meeting to
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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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