Every year World Food Safety Day is celebrated on June 7 all over the world. The theme of World Food Safety Day 2022 is “Safer food, better health.”
Every year June 7 is observed as World Food Safety Day. This day highlights the importance of safe food in human life. World Health Organisation (WHO) said that the production and consumption of safe food have immediate and long-term benefits for the people, planet and the economy. Safe food prevents and detects the foodborne diseases.
World Food Safety Day 2022:- Theme
The theme of World Food Safety Day 2022 is “Safer food, better health.” This theme highlights the importance of safe food for good health. Safe food prevents from foodborne diseases. World Health Organisation and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) jointly facilitate the observance of World Food Safety Day.
World Food Safety Day 2022:- History
The United Nations General Assembly had been passing resolutions for celebrating World Food Safety Day since 2016 onwards. But the final resolution was passed on 20th December, 2018 for celebrating June 7 as World Food Safety Day. The reason behind celebrating this day is to make people aware about the safe food. In 2020, World Health Assembly also passed resolution to celebrate this day.
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World Food Safety Day 2022:- Significance
This day came into existence after witnessing the significance of safe food on the health of people. Many children across the world under age 5 die every year due to unsafe food which is a very serious problem. So, awareness about safe food is very necessary so that the precious lives of children can be saved.
Safety of the food requires not only in cooking and eating but the whole food chain should be safe. From production to harvesting, processing, transportation, storage and consumption. The whole food chain requires to be safe only then we can say food is safe. Safe food means it is free from contamination which should prevent from bacteria and viruses.
Contaminated food can not be seen with the eyes but it is very harmful and toxic in nature. Food should be stored at cool place like in refrigerator to prevent it from contamination.
Only safe food can provide appropriate nutrition to the body. Unsafe or contaminated food spread diseases instead of providing nutrition. So, proper etiquettes are required to follow to make the food safe.
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