People hardly pay attention to package labels that bear important parameters such as food composition, quality indicators and symbols of quality systems compliance with food safety standards or traceability. The United Nations General Assembly declared that June 7, starting this year, would be World Food Safety Day to celebrate the countless benefits of safe food. Interventions by governments, donors, development agencies, food safety experts and researchers require the consumer to play a leading role in ensuring food is safe. By fostering a culture of demanding safe food, they will make food safety needs to be adapted in the markets. Together, let’s identify and implement corrective actions to the existing and emerging threats of unsafe food and make food chain actors adapt to a changing environment.

Source: Daily Nation May 24, 2019 12:22 UTC