5. Food safety challenges
• Infected animals often show no illness
• Public health initiatives must include apparently healthy
animals
• Public health initiatives must include the safety of what
food animals consume
• Contaminated food usually looks, smells and tastes
normal
• Traditional (visual) food inspection is not sufficient
• Pathogens may survive traditional food preparation
techniques
• New control techniques are required
• Weak foodborne disease surveillance system in
incomplete outbreak investigation
6. • Codex Alimentarius (Food Law or Code) is a collection of
internationally adopted food standards presented in a uniform
manner
• Intergovernmental food standards-setting body established by FAO
and WHO
• Codex standards are used to construct sound national food control
systems
• Reference by policy-maker and regulators
• The WTO SPS Agreement has given new status and importance to
Codex
• WTO/SPS agreement Article 3 encourage WTO Members to
use international standards set by Codex, IPPC and OIE
Codex Alimentarius Commission
8. Scientific input to Codex
Independent FAO/WHO Expert committees:
JECFA (Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives)
provides advice to CCFA, CCCF, CCRVDF
JMPR (Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues)
provides advice to CCPR
JEMRA (Joint Expert Committee on Microbiological Risk Assessment)
provides advice to CCFH
JEMNU (Joint Expert Meetings on Nutrition)
provides advice to CCNFSDU
Ad hoc consultations
e.g. FAO/WHO Expert Meeting to review the technical basis of the
mitigation/intervention measures for the control on non-typhoidal Salmonella
spp. in beef and pork meat
10. Links between Environment, Food Safety and
Human Health
Source: Jiang, ., Wang, F., Li, Q. et al. Environment and food safety
Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 54511–54530 (2021)
11. What is UN Food
Systems Summit?
The Food Systems
Summit focused on
five priority areas
– divided into
‘Action Tracks’
Convened by the United
Nations
Secretary-General
António Guterres on 23-24
September 2021
The “People’s Summit”
provided an opportunity to
drive new actions, solutions,
and plans to transform our
food systems and deliver
progress across all the
Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs).
12. Action Track 1: Ensuring Access to Safe and Nutritious
Food for All Enabling all people to be well nourished and healthy,
progressive realization of the right to food.
Action Track 2: Shift to Healthy and Sustainable
Consumption Patterns Promoting and creating demand for
healthy and sustainable diets, reducing waste.
Action Track 3: Boosting Nature-Positive Production
Acting on climate change, reducing emissions and
increasing carbon capture, regenerating and protecting critical ecosystems
and reducing food loss and energy usage, without undermining health or
nutritious diet.
Action Track 4: Advancing Equitable Livelihoods and
Value Distribution Raising incomes, distributing risk, expanding
inclusion, promoting full and productive employment and decent work for
all.
Action Track 5: Building Resilience to Vulnerabilities,
Shocks and Stresses Ensuring the continued functionality of
healthy and sustainable food systems.
UN Food Systems
Summit Key Outcomes
13. Framework for Action on Food Safety in the South-East Asia Region
SCOPE
developed based on situation analysis of the food control
system in Member States of the Region, of progress made
through implementation of the Regional Food Safety
Strategy, including the WHO Thirteenth GPW, Codex
Strategic Plan and recommendations of WHO/FAO/AU
Global FS Conference
OBJECTIVE
serves as a guidance to prioritize actions for strengthening
the food control system at the national level, to support
policy advocacy at higher levels, to support harmonization at
regional level
TARGET AUDIENCE
National food safety authorities across the food chain,
including public health authorities involved in food safety
emergency preparedness and response
TIMEFRAME
a six-year period of 2020 - 2025
MONITORING & EVALUATION
Utilize the existing M&E tools such as State party annual
reporting (SPAR), joint external evaluation (JEE), etc. at the
end of the timeframe
Framework for Action on Food Safety
15. Framework for Action on Food Safety in Asia-Pacific
Region: Common approach
2020-2025 2018-2025
Country focused, multisectoral collaboration, risk-based approach,
public private partnership, emergency response plan, One Health
Global Good
Safety Strategy
16. Why do we need a new Global Strategy for Food Safety?
Global food safety threats
Environmental challenges
Rise of new technologies and digital transformation
Interests and demands for food safety
Demographic changes
Global changes and their impacts on the food supply chain
Society: changing expectations and behaviour around food
Drivers of
change
impacting
food safety
systems
17. Overview of all 5 Strategic Priorities (SP) and respective Strategic Objectives
International Cooperation
SP1. Strengthening
national food controls
systems
• Food legislation
framework
• Institutional
framework for
multisectoral
coordination
• Fit-for-purpose
standards &
guidelines
• Compliance,
verification &
enforcement
• Monitoring/
Surveillance
programmes
• Incident and
emergency
response systems
SP2. Identifying and
responding to food
safety challenges
resulting from global
changes in food
systems transformation
• Food safety
impacts arising
from global
changes
• Risk management
options to
emerging risks
SP3: Improving the use
of food chain
information, scientific
evidence and risk
assessment in making
risk management
decisions
• Generation and usage
of scientific data for
food control
• Data collection to
support risk
management decisions
• Source food safety
inform and risk analysis
experiences to
strengthen risk mgm
decisions
• Consistent and
transparent risk mgm
decisions for food
control measures
SP4. Strengthening
stakeholder
engagement and risk
communication
• Platform for
consultation on
food safety agenda
• Non-regulatory
schemes
assessment
• Capacity building
& engagement of
FBO
• Communication &
education of
consumers
SP5. Promoting food
safety as an essential
component in
domestic, regional and
international food
trade
• Domestic food
markets (including
traditional food
markets)
• National liaison
and coordination
on food trade
• Alignment with
Codex standards
• Engagement of
national and
stakeholders for
safety standards
and guidelines
18. 1. Adoption of the WHO global strategy for food safety;
2. Call on Member States to develop national
implementation road maps and to make appropriate
financial resources available to support such work;
and
3. Request the Director-General to report back on
progress in the implementation of the WHO global
strategy for food safety to the 77th WHA in 2024 and
thereafter every two years until 2030.
Adoption of the Global Strategy for Food Safety at the the 75th WHA
Editor's Notes
RED: microorganisms and contaminants
BLUE: countries
GREEN: food commodities
How to regulate them?
Social acceptability
Nano technological advancement for alternative industrial food production
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30 August 2023
In 1963 to develop harmonised international food standards, which protect consumer health and promote fair practices in food trade.
The Framework for Action on Food Safety has been developed with the overall vision of safe food for all individuals through strengthening the food system to safeguard consumer health.
The Framework is tailored for food safety within a time frame of 2020–2025.
The Framework for Action on Food Safety is aligned with other strategic plans and programmes related to food safety at the regional and global levels.
Food safety is a shared responsibility and implementation of the Framework should be coordinated with various health-related programmes in WHO, such as nutrition, environmental health, climate change, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), taking into consideration the One Health approach.
First, it is important to recap why do we need a new strategy for food safety at global level.
The last WHO strategy for food safety was published in 2002 and during this period there were so many changes in our food system that impacted food safety.
It was necessary to revise and update the global strategy to make sure our food safety systems are modernized and adapted to ensure the food we eat is safe.
In response to this, the WHA73 requested WHO to update its current strategy for food safety to tackle current and emerging food safety threats.
This slides summarizes the main content of the strategy, which are the 5 strategic priorities and their respective strategic objectives:
Under the SP1: there are 6 Strategic objectives that address different components of food control systems related to legislation, policy and standards, institutional framework, enforcement, verification and compliance, monitoring and surveillance programmes. It also includes laboratories capacities and emergency response.
Under SP2: there are 2 strategic objectives that are related to food safety impacts arising form food systems transformation and on risk management options to respond to emerging risks.
Under SP3: there are 4 strategic objectives: first to promote the usage of data and science in food safety, to use the data for decision on risk management and for food control measures with consistency and transparency inside and outside the country borders. It addresses to use the data and science as the basis for risk management and policy interventions.
Under SP4, there are 5 strategic objectives: the first is about the engagement with all stakeholders to decide on the national food safety agenda, the second one explores the possibility to have non-regulatory schemes to enhance food safety, the third one explores the possibility for governments or competent authorities to share verification of compliance with non-governmental bodies, the fourth and fifth discuss the engagement with food business operators and the communication and education in relation to consumers.
Under SP5, in total 4 strategic objectives were identified addressing food safety issues at the interface of trade. It covers the domestic food markets, including traditional food markets, national liaison and coordination among ministries or agencies that are engaged in food trade, and also an enabling environment for international trade which includes both imports and exports.
After the submission of the document to the EB 150, the recommendations from the executive body were:
(1) to adopt the WHO global strategy for food safety;
(2) to call on Member States to develop national implementation road maps and to make appropriate financial resources available to support such work; and
(3) to request the Director-General to report back on progress in the implementation of the WHO global strategy for food safety to the 77th WHA in 2024 and thereafter every two years until 2030.
