Codex Chair calls for creation of World Food Safety Day
16/12/2015
FERG is the Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group which is taking forward the work of the World Health Organization initiative to generate the first ever estimates of the global burden of foodborne disease (December 3 2015).
A FERG symposium entitled 'The Global burden of foodborne diseases - from data to action' is currently being held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 15-16 December 2015.
This symposium is organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Local Organizing Committee at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM).
Call for World Food Safety Day
The Codex Alimentarius Chairperson Mrs Awilo Ochieng Pernet, speaking at the event on Tuesday, called for
"the creation of a World Food Safety Day in order to raise awareness about the importance of food safety among all relevant stakeholders world-wide."