Addis Ababa: At least 600 million people fall ill and 420,000 die worldwide every year from contaminated food each year, the United Nations said on Tuesday, calling on the world leaders for greater international cooperation to make the food chain safer.
"Safeguarding our food is a shared responsibility. We must all play our part," Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jose Graziano De Silva said at the First International Food Safety Conference in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa.
"We must work together to scale up food safety in national and international political agendas," he emphasized at the conference organized by the FAO, the World Health Organization, World Trade Organization, and the African Union.
In his speech before the representatives of 130 countries participating in the two-day conference, De Silva stressed that "there is no food security without food safety".
The conference participants – including agriculture, health, and trade ministers; scientific experts; partner agencies; civil society organizations; and the private sector – also confirmed that food safety must be a paramount goal at every stage of the food chain, from production to harvest, processing, storage, distribution, preparation and consumption.
The conference aims to identify key actions to ensure safe food and a strengthened commitment to scale up food safety in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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