KARACHI (NPTV/UN): Like all over the globe World Food Safety Day (WFSD) is being marked on Friday (7th June, 2024) in Pakistan as well in order to inform people about the significance of food standards.
Food-borne diseases affect one in 10 people worldwide each year, and food standards help us to ensure what we eat is safe.
Access to sufficient amounts of safe food is key to sustaining life and promoting good health.
Food-borne illnesses are usually infectious or toxic in nature and often invisible to the plain eye, caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances entering the body through contaminated food or water.
Food safety has a critical role in assuring that food stays safe at every stage of the food chain – from production to harvest, processing, storage, distribution, all the way to preparation and consumption.
With an estimated 600 million cases of food-borne illnesses annually, unsafe food is a threat to human health and economies, disproportionally affecting vulnerable and marginalized people, especially women and children, populations affected by conflict, and migrants.
An estimated four lakh twenty thousandth (4,20,000) people around the world die every year after eating contaminated food and children under 5 years of age carry 40% of the food-borne disease burden, with One lakh twenty-five thousand (1, 25, 000) deaths every year.
WFSD on 7th June aims to draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect and manage food-borne risks, contributing to food security, human health, economic prosperity, agriculture, market access, tourism and sustainable development.
WHO and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) jointly facilitate the observance of WFSD, in collaboration with Member States and other relevant organizations.
This international day is an opportunity to strengthen efforts to ensure that the food we eat is safe, mainstream food safety in the public agenda and reduce the burden of food-borne diseases globally.
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