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World Food Safety Day 2020

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Practice food safety, Reduce food waste, Ensure food security! Today June 7, 2020, is World Food Safety Day, an initiative led by the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture (FAO) to promote global food safety awareness with the theme "Food safety, everyone's business". Food safety is the most important attributes of food. Food safety refers to safe food that is handled, prepared and stored to reduce the risk of foodborne illnesses and is safe and suitable for consumption. Food security, on the other hand, means that food is available at all times, that all persons have access to it, that it is nutritionally adequate in terms of quantity, safety, quality and variety. To ensure food security, it is essential to practice food safety. Target 2.1 "Universal Access To Safe and Nutritious Food" of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2 cannot be achieved without ensuring food safety. Appropriate management of risks by