World Food Safety Day

🌍 This past weekend, on June 7, the global community marked World Food Safety Day.

Food safety and food security are often mentioned together but they are not the same thing.
Food safety means that food will not cause harm when it is prepared and consumed as intended.
Food security means that people have reliable access to sufficient, nutritious, and affordable food.

One focuses on safety. The other focuses on access.
Yet neither can exist without the other.

Food that is available but unsafe does not contribute to food security.
And food that is safe but inaccessible does not solve food insecurity.

This year’s World Food Safety Day reminds us that safe food is built on science, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the entire food chain.
In the poultry sector, food safety depends on a range of responsible practices, from biosecurity and animal health management to processing controls, traceability, and antimicrobial stewardship.

This is why IPC developed its Antimicrobial Stewardship Principles: to support the responsible and judicious use of antimicrobials, helping preserve their effectiveness while contributing to animal health, food safety, and public confidence in food systems.

Food safety is a shared responsibility, and progress depends on collaboration across the entire value chain.
At IPC, we are committed to advancing science-based practices that support both safe food and resilient food systems.

Read IPC’s AMR Stewardship Principles here: https://lnkd.in/dpm6ehmv