Strategic Plan for Food Safety

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FOOD SAFETY: A PUBLIC HEALTH PRIORITY10To achieve food safety, strong, functional links must be built between the public health andother sectors —particularly the agricultural and animal health sectors— to ensure effectivecross-sectoral collaboration. The public health sector must play a pivotal role in building acommunity of various stakeholders and partners, who share common goals and responsibilities.This partnership should encompass consumer and school education, science and research,agriculture and fishery, tourism, trade, industry as well as regulatory authorities. Key playersneed to have timely access to reliable and up-to-date information including emergency alertsso that collective actions can be taken. A food safety problem in one country immediately putsother countries at risk if it is not addressed promptly.Food safety is a critical component for sustainable development. Safer food contributes to lessillness, and hence increased productivity and improved livelihood. Safe food, conforming tointernational food safety standards, contributes to increased export, hence, increased income.Food safety is critical to human nutrition and food security. Poor nutrition and foodbornediseases often combine to a vicious cycle of worsening health. Therefore, food safety must besystematically integrated into policies and interventions to improve nutrition and food security.As the international community moves towards the post–Millennium Development Goal phasewith a focus on sustainable development goals, food safety is an essential element in improvingglobal health and ensuring sustainable development.
The Role of WHO11WHO has a specific mandate for the protection of public health. WHO Member States haverecognized that ensuring the safety of food is an essential public health function.WHO works to protect the health of consumers through providing:public health leadershiptechnical assistance and cooperationnormative frameworksscience-based policy guidanceconsolidated health-related data.In addition to the charges related to food safety in the 1948 Constitution of WHO, the WorldHealth Assembly in 1978 requested the Director-General to develop a food safety programmeand address the control of foodborne diseases and food hygiene. More recently, WHO wasgiven the mandate from its Member States to take action in these areas through World HealthAssembly resolutions in 2000 (WHA53.15) and in 2010 (WHA63.3). This mandate confirmedfood safety as a public health priority, committed WHO and its Member States to a range ofmultisectoral and multidisciplinary actions to promote the safety of food at local, national andinternational levels and outlined some of the key actions needed to advance food safety.
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