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WHO News Item, 27 May 2022

WHO – 75th World Health Assembly: Updated strategy for food safety

The following is an extract from the report of the day's meeting:

Delegates at the Health Assembly agreed to adopt the updated WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety 2022-2030, in order to strengthen national food safety systems. The update is to ensure food safety systems are modernized and multi-sectoral collaboration strengthened with a view to ensuring that all people consume safe and healthy food, thereby reducing the burden of foodborne diseases, which currently affect almost 1 in 10 people worldwide.

Member States are encouraged to either develop country implementation roadmaps or to reflect actions to implementation within existing food safety policies and programmes, and to allocate the necessary resources. The Director-General is also requested to report on progress biannually until 2030.

The strategy was put forward in consultation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, with Member States and with the World Organization for Animal Health.

The Draft WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety 2022-2030 was published in December 2021:

Draft WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety 2022-2030

A copy of the Draft Strategy can be downloaded from th WHO site (click on image).


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