After 20 years, WHO updated its Global Strategy for Food Safety as a step towards a safer and healthier world and towards strengthening multisectoral collaboration and innovative public health approaches. The strategy’s vision is that all people, everywhere, consume safe and healthy food so as to reduce the burden of foodborne diseases.
The strategy sets concrete targets and aims to reduce the burden of foodborne diseases by reducing in 40% the number of cases of foodborne diarrheal diseases incidence that affects most the children under 5 and other vulnerable populations. It also has a target of 100% of functional coordination mechanisms to manage foodborne events and improved laboratory capacity for foodborne disease surveillance. The strategy includes identified five interlinked and mutually reinforcing strategic priorities with respective strategic objectives.
Join the WHO Department of Nutrition and Food Safety for the launch webinar on 17 October 2022, 12:00 – 13:00 CET, to learn firsthand how WHO, partners and the members of the Technical Advisory Group on Food Safety are working to support Member States in the implementation of the strategy.