The theme of World Food Safety Day 2022 is “safer food, better health.” Worldwide organizations explain why and how the global community should prioritize ensuring the safety of food.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published a concept paper that outlines the agency’s future work and goals for improving risk communication across the EU food safety system.

The Codex Alimentarius Commission is developing a new guidance on food fraud, with input from the Global Food Safety Initiative. The guidance is expected to be published in 2024 or 2025.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is piloting a new kind of international partnership that will allow for increased safety of food imported to the U.S., with shrimp as the focus.

The EU is conducting a report to analyze the legality and rationale of subjecting all imported agricultural and agri-food products to EU health and environmental standards, to which the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) has submitted its concerns.

The Codex Alimentarius Committee has drafted a new guidance for the management of microbiological foodborne illness outbreaks at the recent Committee on Food Hygiene meeting.

The Codex Committee on Hygiene is in the process of revising the general principles of Hygiene (Codex, 2020). This document was first published in 1969. Codex has published the body of the text and most of the diagrams; however, the Decision Tree is still under review by the Codex Committee.  

Although Turkey is a major exporter of food products to the EU, it must improve its food safety policies if it wants to join the bloc.

Risk communicators should be aware of the uncertainties in the science underlying food safety as well as their own potential biases. Do you understand what this means for your food safety messaging around your brand?

Temporary safety rules on official controls have again been extended by the European Commission, due to the pandemic.