{"id":2878,"date":"2022-06-06T14:39:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2022-06-06T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:39:14","slug":"world-food-safety-day-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/2022\/06\/06\/world-food-safety-day-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLD FOOD SAFETY DAY 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 2022 marks the fourth celebration of World Food Safety Day (WFSD), after its establishment by a resolution of UN General Assembly, in December 2018, with the slogan <strong>\u2018Food safety, everyone\u2019s business\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The National Codex Contact Point (NCCP) in the Antigua and Barbuda Bureau of Standards (ABBS) is partnering with the principal Food Safety partners in the Ministries of Health, Wellness and the Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Barbuda Affairs (MAFBA), to bring a series of awareness activities and information sharing opportunities, to highlight the 2022 theme <strong>\u2018Safer food, better health\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Codex Food and Agriculture Technical Committee has chosen a focus on the <strong>\u2018safe production and consumption of eggs\u2019<\/strong> as its major focus for this year\u2019s WFSD recognition-starting a conversation that will see continued advocacy moving forward.\u00a0 Other activities to look forward to are:<\/p>\n<p>Media talks and interviews on state and other private media houses on 7<sup>th<\/sup> and 8<sup>th<\/sup> June ;<\/p>\n<p>Central Board of Health Food Safety Information drive targeting Food Handlers from 8:30am to 9:30 am in St. John&#8217;s City, and a drive-by quiz and giveaway event outside the CBH Headquarters located at Upper Church Street.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Agriculture\u2019s Food safety advocacy and Health walk to move from the Ministry, left on Independence Avenue, left on Queen Elizabeth Highway, left on Parliament Drive, left on Factory Road, left on Independence Avenue and back to the Ministry;<\/p>\n<p>Sharing of information in print and social media;<\/p>\n<p>Participation in online\/virtual talks, webinars and panel discussions put on by WHO, FAO, PAHO, and other food safety authorities<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public, civil society and work groups are also encouraged to <strong>create placards or other messages and circulate pictures and videos of their WFSD advocacy on social media<\/strong> to support the \u2018safer food better health\u2019 campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 7th, 2022 marks the fourth celebration of World Food Safety Day (WFSD), after its establishment by a resolution of UN General Assembly, in December 2018, with the slogan \u2018Food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-notices"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2879,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/2879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}