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Call to Action

Call to action - policy makers illustration

Governments can:

  • Ensure food safety remains a continuous priority, integrating policies and programmes into long-term planning.
  • Rank risks and prioritize preventive actions using available burden estimates and other data, directing resources to where they are needed most.
  • Strengthen data collection through foodborne disease surveillance and food monitoring, using evidence to guide effective risk management measures and track progress.

 

Call to action - businesses illustration

Food businesses can:

  • Strengthen employee training and education  on the latest food safety practices and emerging risks, and ensure a thorough use of food safety programmes, such as good practices, including Codex codes of practice.
  • Use, where applicable, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) to identify and control hazards and manage food safety risks from production to consumption.
  • Implement evidence-based food safety programmes using data within the business to monitor food safety risks and track improvements.

 

Call to action - consumers illustration

Health professionals can:

  • Strengthen detection by improving diagnostics, clinical management and control programmes of foodborne diseases to better identify areas with higher burden.
  • Collaborate with multisectoral partners to promote integrated disease surveillance across sectors.

 

Call to action - consumers illustration

Consumers can:

  • Practice safe food handling at home by following WHO’s Five Keys to Safer Food.
  • Stay informed and act on evidence by checking updates from reliable sources on food recalls, outbreaks and safe food practices.
  • Report and respond to risks by knowing how to alert authorities about unsafe food and taking practical steps to prevent illness in the household.