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June 7, 2025, Cairo, Egypt – In the World Food Safety Day 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) is highlighting the role of scientific research and innovation in guaranteeing food safety.
Scientists contribute to understanding the risks for human health from known food contaminants, emerging and anticipated in many ways. They lead rigorous research to generate reliable tests that help political managers, food companies and consumers to make informed and safe decisions.
The burden of foods of food origin is significant but largely preventable. Food origin diseases affect people in all age groups, but in particular children under the age of 5 and vulnerable. The eastern Mediterranean region is in a fundamental point to ensure that all individuals have access to safe and nutritious food supplies. The situation is made even more urgent by rapidly evolving climate change and environmental pollution, from the wave of urbanization, population growth and changes in lifestyle and consumer models. These factors are increasing human exposure to harmful chemical compounds, antimicrobial residues and pathogenic agents of food resistant to drugs.
The implications for health and associated economic costs of foods of food origin are substantial. They include expenses relating to medical care, child development, lost productivity, export restrictions and market loss.
The World Health Assembly – WHA73.5 (2020) “strengthening of food safety efforts” – He commissioned who to update the global burden estimates of food diseases. By offering detailed insights on the incidence, mortality and burden of diseases expressed in the years of life correct for disabilities (Dalys) and providing a complete overview of the impact of these foods of food origin, which plays a crucial role in guiding public health strategies and guaranteeing more secure food practices all over the world.
In the eastern Mediterranean region, the improvement of food safety requires a solid commitment to scientific research. By strategically exploiting scientific progress and actively cultivating regional and international collaborations, the Region can improve safety and food quality, help to protect public health and advance economic sustainability.
Through the collaboration – sharing of knowledge, resources and innovations – we establish a strong environment that we guarantee compliance with the rules on food safety and guide significant progress. Our unshakable commitment to food safety based on science opens the way for a healthier and safer future for everyone.
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