World Food Safety Day 2023 celebrations will be marked by a hybrid high-level event on 7 June, 12:15 – 13:30 CEST to discuss this year’s World Food Safety Day theme, Food standards save lives. The event, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Health Organization (WHO) and the Codex Secretariat, will be available online for the virtual audience.
The event will start with the welcome remarks from FAO Director-General Dr QU Dongyu and WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, followed by two panels. The first panel will focus on how Codex standards are making a difference at country level. It will be followed by a segment on how food standards promote health. The second panel will discuss the role of science in standard setting and food systems transformation.
Interpretation will be available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
Agenda
Introduction | Dr Sarah Cahill, Senior Food Standards Officer, Codex Alimentarius Commission Secretariat |
Welcome remarks | Dr QU Dongyu, FAO Director-General |
Opening remarks | Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General |
Panel 1 | How Codex Alimentarius standards are making a difference |
Moderator | Ms Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General, FAO |
Panelists | H.E. Frida Krifca, Minister of Agriculture, Albania H.E. Francisco Gamboa Soto, Minister of Economy, Industry and Commerce, Costa Rica H.E. José Emilio Esteban, Undersecretary for Food Safety, Department of Agriculture, United State of America |
Conversation | How food standards are promoting health and saving lives in Brazil |
Moderator | Dr Francesco Branca, Director of the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO |
Interviewer | Dr Laila Sofia Mouawad, Coordinator, International Affairs Office, Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA) |
Panel 2 | The role of science in standard setting and food systems transformation |
Moderator | Dr Corinna Hawkes, Director of the Food Systems and Food Safety Division, FAO |
| Panelists | Dr Catherine Bessy, Senior Food Safety Officer, FAO Dr Ihab Habib, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, United Arab Emirates Dr Moez Sanaa, Unit Head, the Standards and Scientific Advice on Food and Nutrition, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO Dr Caroline Smith DeWaal, Deputy Director of EatSafe, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) |
Closing remarks | Dr Ailan Li, Assistant Director-General for Universal Health Coverage / Healthier Populations, WHO |
The full programme of the event: https://www.fao.org/3/cc5816en/cc5816en.pdf