World Food Safety Day 7 June 2020

World Food Safety Day 7 June 2020

International Food Safety Day

THEME: Food safety, everyone's business

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une 7, 2019, marks the first World Food Safety Day. The decision to celebrate the day was made under a joint plan of the United Nations General Assembly, the World Health Organization, and the Food and Agriculture Organization. The main purpose of celebrating this day is to highlight the negative health effects of contaminated food and water consumption globally. The day will raise awareness around the world about diseases associated with unsafe food consumption. 

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Conducting Seminars

Various institutes hold seminars on this day. The aim of the seminar is how to prevent diseases by using a balanced diet in the current situation. World Food Safety Day is celebrated to raise awareness about consumer health and food safety. These seminars also point out that all stakeholders and relevant authorities should play their role in improving food safety rules based on scientific principles. These seminars also point out that all stakeholders and relevant authorities should play their role in improving food safety rules based on scientific principles. Providing safe and healthy food is a fundamental right of every citizen.

Food safety as a way of life

Foods can be polluted during any of the production, processing, distribution, storage, otherwise preparation phases.

Germs can spread from unclean hands, tools, clothes, otherwise surfaces to food. If one food, particularly if raw food, comes in contact with additional types of food or if it remains at room temperature for an extended time, bacteria could grow quickly besides present enormous health risks. Food safety deeply depends on the obligation of everyone involved in the food supply chain, from growers as well as producers to sellers.

On the other hand, whereas this feature depends on how different experts handle the food, it is similarly significant for everybody to know how to prepare their food safely besides hygienically at home. It is a daily assurance we should never take too lightly.

Food safety in your homes

Proper food hygiene is very important while preparing food and the following tips are particularly important to avoid contamination for your family and yourself:

Cleaning:

·   Wash your hands with any good soap besides warm water for 20 seconds before and after you handle food. Dry them with a hand towel or kitchen tissue paper.

·       Take out your ornaments in advance you handle food.

·    Clean the area you are working in and the utensils you are using with hot foam-covered water. Clean up any food trips instantly.

·       Change your tea towels as well as dishcloths on a regular basis.

Storing food:

·     Check labels for recommendations on how to store foodstuffs.

·    Keep your Refridgerator at 5°C (40°F) or below, as well as your freezer colder than –18°C to prevent bacteria from growing.

·     Keep raw meat, poultry, besides seafood separate from other foods in airtight containers at the bottom of the Refridgerator.

·      Poultry as well as fish should be cooked or frozen within 2 days, extra meats within 3-5 days.

Conclusion

Food is a major issue for Third World countries, much remains to be done. Providing safe and healthy food is a fundamental right of every citizen. Citizens should receive food under the principles of hygiene. People living below the poverty line suffer from a lack of attention to food. World Food Safety Day requires us to have individual and collective responsibilities.

All these reforms also need to be introduced at the national level. In order to establish an effective system of safe food throughout the country and to prevent further loss of human lives due to unhealthy food. The government should use this day to educate the people about safe food and also to include the factors related to the food profession in this campaign. The goal of a safe and healthy diet can only be achieved through joint efforts. This year's theme of World Food Safety Day also sends the message that this is a problem for all of us.

Qur'an Says:

And to (the people of ) Madyan (Midian), (We sent) their brother Shuaib. He said. “O, my people! Worship Allah! You have no other Ilah (God) but Him. [La ilaha illallah (none has the right to be worshipped but Allah)].” Verily, a clear proof (sign) from your Lord has come to you; so give full measure and full weight and wrong not men in their things, and do not do mischief on the earth after it has been set in order, that will be better for you, if you are believers. (Quran, Chapter: 7:85).