food

Friends visiting Croatia share a fresh pizza in Makarska, illustrating the importance of food safely to tourism and economic prosperity.
© Eric Ganz

World Food Safety Day: From planting to your plate, everyone has a role to play

7 June 2020
Health

Eating contaminated food has caused an estimated 600 million people in the world, or almost one-in-ten individuals, to fall ill – 420,000 of whom die every year, two UN specialized agencies highlighted on Sunday, World Food Safety Day.

The Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization are joining forces to assist countries to prevent, manage and respond to risks along the food supply chain. Pictured above is a marketplace in Kampala, Uganda.
World Bank/Arne Hoel

‘From farm to plate’, first-ever World Food Safety Day demonstrates the need to take unsafe food off the menu

6 June 2019
Health

Unsafe food kills an estimated 420,000 people every year, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, just ahead of the first-ever UN World Food Safety Day. Children under-five are the most at risk, carrying 40 per cent of the foodborne disease burden, amounting to 125,000 deaths every year.