International Workshop "Food safety: a global view

Food safety is a significant public health issue for all the governments around the world. According to the World Health Organization, food safety has been identified as a public health priority as unsafe food causes serious illness in millions of people every year and many deaths.
The globalization of markets, together with the development of new techniques of processing, packaging, storage and transportation has caused deep changes in the global food production and distribution, boosting world food trade.
This new scenario poses emerging challenges to food safety and calls governments all over the world to face the need for global management strategies.
Building capacity to ensure food safety represents a shared responsibility between all the stakeholders: governments, inter-governmental organizations, producers, consumers and scientists.
Thus, effective implementation of common strategies will require strengthened partnerships between international organizations involved in food safety and between agencies at the national level, as well as the improvement of public awareness and consumers’ education.
In this context, international meeting and networking are a means to address these issues and share different experiences and approaches.

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