World Food Safety Day

Food safety is everyone’s business

WORLD FOOD SAFETY DAY - 7 JUNE 2026

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From burden to solutions - safe food everywhere

Foodborne diseases may affect everyone everywhere, and understanding the extent of the burden allows national authorities and business owners to take targeted action. Reliable data on the health burden of unsafe food is the foundation for evidence-based policies, coordinated multisectoral action, and informed consumer choices.

Everyone in the food chain—from farmers and producers, to transporters, retailers, food inspectors, cooks and consumers—benefits from science and clear guidance on how to prevent contamination and illness. Governments can translate data into cost-effective policies and interventions, food businesses can improve practices, and individuals can make evidence-based decisions. This World Food Safety Day we emphasize that health data is power: understanding the magnitude, distribution and impact of risks in food allows us to make food as safe as possible.

World Food Safety Day is an important way of:

making people aware of food safety issues
demonstrating how to prevent illness through food safety
discussing collaborative approaches to improved food safety across sectors
promoting solutions and ways of being more food safe

How to participate

The World Food Safety Day slogan is “Food safety is everyone’s business.” This is because we are all stakeholders in the food system, and we can all play a part in keeping food safe. Whether you oversee food safety systems, or grow, process, transport, store, distribute, sell, prepare, serve or even just eat food, there is something you can do to join in.

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