Food safety education
Food safety education for stakeholders across the farm-to-table continuum is an increasingly important role for food control systems. These activities include the provision of balanced factual information to consumers; the provision of information packages and educational programmes for key officials and workers in the food industry; development of train-the-trainer programmes; and provision of reference literature to extension workers in the agriculture and health sectors. WHO has identified a basic level of food safety education that it has identified as the WHO Five Keys to Safer Food . This page provides links to information associated with the work of WHO and its partners to address this issue in countries and areas of the Western Pacific.
This page provides links to information associated with the work of WHO and its partners to address this issue in countries and areas of the Western Pacific. For the Five Keys to Safer Food in different languages, see the Food Safety health topic.
Fact sheets
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News and press releases
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Relevant publications and documents
Stop the Spread - Measures to Stop the Spread of Highly Pathogenic Bird Flu at its Source
This document outlines strategies to minimise the disease in the production, distribution, processing and marketing of poultry, thereby reducing the risk to human health from Avian Influenza.The strategies where developed during the FAO/OIE/WHO Consultation on Avian Influenza and Human Health: Risk Reduction Measures in Producing, Marketing, and Living with Animals in Asia, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 4 to 6 July 2005 (full meeting report is below).
FAO/OIE/WHO Consultation on Avian Influenza and Human Health: Risk Reduction Measures in Producing, Marketing, and Living with Animals in Asia
This meeting report covers the presentations and discussions undertaken on the following:(1) the current practices employed in the production and marketing of live animals in Asia that might have potential human health implications;(2) the scope and effectiveness of current regulatory control measures applied to the production, distribution and marketing of live animals for food in Asia to minimize the human health risk;(3) the provision of guidance applicable in developing countries regarding appropriate regulatory controls in the production, distribution and marketing of live animals for food;(4) identification of effective interventions that would (a) enhance community awareness and understanding of high-risk human behaviors and practices contributing to the emergence and prevalence of avian influenza in humans and poultry; and (b) facilitate change aimed at reducing the risk of zoonoses to human health; and(5) determination of research that needs to be undertaken to strengthen regulatory controls.
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