The World Food Safety Day on 7 June 2022 draws attention and mobilizes action to prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks and improve human health.

Foodborne diseases affect 1 in 10 people worldwide each year. There are over 200 of these diseases - some mild, but others deadly.

Food safety is a shared responsibility between governments, producers and consumers. Everybody has a role to play in ensuring that from “farm to table,” the food that we consume is safe and does not damage our health. Through the World Food Safety Day, WHO endeavours to mainstream food safety in the public agenda and reduce the burden of foodborne diseases globally. The United Nations General Assembly established World Food Safety Day in 2018 to raise awareness of this important issue.

This year’s theme, “Safer food, better health”, highlights the role that safe, nutritional food plays in ensuring human health and well-being and calls for a set of specific actions to make food safer. It also emphasizes the importance of reducing food wastage to improve food safety and health for ‘Our Planet, Our Health’.

We all have a role to play; whether we grow, process, transport, store, sell, buy, prepare or serve food, food safety is in all our hands. And if we work together, we can all help achieve safer food for better health.