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World Food Safety Day 2023

.The world is in a food crisis

1,600,000
People get sick due to unsafe food in one day, on average.

 

340
Children under 5 years of age die due to preventable foodborne diseases, on average, every day.

200
Diseases caused by unsafe food, ranging from diarrhoea to cancers.

World Food Safety Day on 7 June 2023 will draw attention to food standards. Foodborne diseases affect 1 in 10 people worldwide each year, and food standards help us to ensure what we eat is safe. 

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