June 7, 2022

World Food Safety Day: Safer Food, Better Health

June 7, 2022

World Food Safety Day: Safer Food, Better Health

Food safety is everyone’s business, let’s create lasting change!

On World Food Safety Day, I am proud to join SDG 2030 to discuss how safer food, leads to better health and how we can collectively achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Amplifying and mobilising action to prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks and improve human health is essential to public health. Food safety and security are two complementing elements of our sustainable future, and necessary for an equitable world. As we become increasingly interconnected, glocal citizens need to choose safe foods and #foodsafety for our one people and our only one planet.

Women and girls are vulnerable at all levels of food safety, from availability, access, utilisation and stability. They suffer the most from macro- and micronutrient deficiencies, especially during the reproductive years. Through my Wellbeing Foundation Africa Mamacare360 program and Adolescents PSHE WASH program, we provide the knowledge mothers, adolescents, children and families need to alter food consumption for improved nutrition, as we are what we eat.

From engaging with families and involving children in food safety activities to promote safe food handling and WASH, following the World Health Organization Five Keys to Safer Food Advocating, to advocating for low-carbon and resource-efficient sustainable food and farming systems to nurture the health of our people and our planet, food safety is everyone’s business, at home, in workplaces, at schools, markets, and for food vendors.

Thank you, SDG 2030, for having me today. WBFA and I continue to actively work toward achieving the SDG 2030 goals, at home in Nigeria, and through advocacy across the globe, as we must preserve people’s opportunities to live in dignity and prosperity across generations.

 

 

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