Food Safety Day 2023!
ALL LIVES MATTER- Food Safety Standards Save Lives!! The theme for the year this World Food Safety Day - Food Standards Save Lives is most apt given the current situation the world finds itself in post-pandemic. To quote data from the WHO “Each year worldwide, unsafe food causes 600 million cases of foodborne diseases and 4,20,000 deaths. 30% of foodborne deaths occur among children under 5 years of age. WHO estimated that 33 million years of healthy lives are lost due to eating unsafe food globally each year, and this number is likely an underestimation. The pandemic has waned and as businesses ease back into normalcy the food industry is grappling with the issue of various food safety concerns. There is also the realization that we need food safety standards that are realistic, harmonized across countries and geographies irrespective of whether a nation is developing or developed. The heightened awareness of foodborne illnesses and food safety has been caused due to rec...
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