World Food Safety Day
June 7 – "Food Safety: Science in Action"
Every June 7, we celebrate World Food Safety Day (WFSD), and in 2025 we commemorate its seventh edition. This day aims to raise awareness and promote concrete actions to prevent, detect, and manage foodborne risks, thereby supporting human health, safe trade, responsible agriculture, and sustainable development.
World Food Safety Day is an opportunity to:
- Raise public awareness about issues related to food safety
- Show how foodborne illnesses can be prevented through safe food practices
- Explore collaborative approaches to improve food safety across all sectors
- Promote solutions and ways to enhance food safety
Multiple actors are involved in food supply chains: producers, processors, transporters, distributors, retailers, cooks—and consumers. At every point in the chain, hazards can lead to contamination. Everyone involved has a role and responsibility to uphold food safety.
This year’s theme, “Food Safety: Science in Action,” highlights the vital role of science in ensuring the food we eat is safe. From a simple power outage at home to food poisoning at a restaurant, a voluntary recall of contaminated products, or an outbreak linked to imported food, food safety incidents can occur at different scales and have varied impacts.
Across the entire food chain—from farm to table—millions of people rely on strict adherence to best practices, standards, and processes grounded in scientific evidence. Science helps us understand how and why food can become contaminated and cause illness, and it provides the tools to prevent it.
Scientists assess known and emerging risks, advise authorities, businesses, and consumers, and support informed and responsible decision-making. Without their work, maintaining food safety in today’s globally interconnected supply chains would be impossible.
On this World Food Safety Day, we celebrate the central role of science as the foundation of food safety and as a key ally in protecting people’s health and the well-being of our societies.
Food safety is everyone’s business!
