June 7 is World Food Safety Day
Dimapur, June 7 (MExN): The Food Safety Cell Directorate of Health & Family Welfare (DoH&FW), Nagaland observed World Food Safety Day on June 7 and urged everyone to take action in ensuring food safety.
“Whether we grow, process, transport, store, distribute, sell, prepare, serve or consume food, we all have a role to play in keeping it safe,” stated the department.
It further stressed that food safety is a shared responsibility between governments, producers and consumers to ensure that the food we consume is safe and will not cause damages to our health.
Access to safe food is a key to sustaining life and promoting good health, it said, adding that access to healthy food is more at risk than any other times.
While food is not known to transmit COVID-19, the department shared some methods to ensure food safety during the pandemic:
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