The document outlines key challenges and approaches to improving global food safety. It discusses various hazards that can arise throughout the food supply chain from production to consumption. Effective food safety requires a multisectoral and multidisciplinary approach. New control techniques are needed as pathogens can survive traditional preparation and contaminated food often looks and smells normal. International standards like Codex Alimentarius help harmonize food safety systems globally. The document then summarizes the vision, strategic goals and framework for a regional food safety strategy in Asia Pacific, as well as the drivers necessitating a new WHO Global Food Safety Strategy.

1. Industrial emissions
and effluents
Waste
Vehicle
emission
Agricultural
practices
Where hazards arise in the food supply
Processing
Storage
Preparation
Livestock
Crops
Seafood
Distribution
Retail
Approach
* Multisectoral
* Multidisciplinary

2. 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

3. • 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

4. Increasing role of Codex in Food, Feed & Trade

5. 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

6. Safer food, better health
Investing in food safety will reap future rewards
Food Safety and Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs)
SDG 2 There is no food security without food safety.
Safe food now for a healthy tomorrow
SDG 3 Food safety has a direct positive impact on
people’s health and nutritional intake.
SDG 17 Cooperation across sectors is the best way to
ensure food is safe.
SDG 12 Ensuring food safety along the supply chain
minimizes food loss and waste.
©FAO/K.Pratt
©FAO/Giulio
Napolitano

7. 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)

8. 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).

9. 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

10. 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

11. Vision, Mission and Strategic Goals of F4A

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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