📢Dr Manos C. Vlasiou, Assistant Prof. at @UNIC_ENG School of Vet. Medicine, presented research on novel zinc–polyphenol complexes as potential antimicrobial candidates at the 16th Inter. Congress of the 🇪🇺Assoc. for Vet. Pharmacology & Toxicology in 🇬🇷.
🔗https://t.co/kS33A1XKKC
📚 | #WeekendReading 4⃣ U❗️
👉 "Understanding Codex" a useful tool to introduce the Codex Alimentarius and its collection of international food standards to everyone. Available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian.
📲➡️ https://t.co/amYNRztxQL
#FoodSafety
📝 | #FoodSafety policies, standards and practices are guided by the work of:
🔸microbiologists
🔸toxicologists
🔸chemists
🔸epidemiologists
🔸biologists
🔸geneticists
🔸people working in many other scientific disciplines
👉 Food safety is everyone's business❗️
📝 | #FoodSafety, nutrition and food security are inextricably linked. Unsafe food creates a vicious cycle of disease and malnutrition, particularly affecting infants, young children, elderly and the sick.
👉#Codex works every day to ensure safe, good quality food for everyone.
🗞️ | Good news everyone❗️
👉 The modernized @FAO GM Foods Platform is now live, featuring a user-friendly interface and improved search functions.
➕ℹ️➡️ https://t.co/lUpKrA8zxu
#FoodSafety | #Codex
🤔 | #DYK | Codex has established several maximum levels (MLs) for contaminants including:
🔸mycotoxins (poisonous chemical compounds produced by certain fungi)
🔸metals (e.g. arsenic & lead)
🔸radionuclides (e.g. cesium & strontium)
➕ℹ️➡️ https://t.co/5xvsYg1CMQ
#FoodSafety
🌍 Zoonoses don’t respect borders.
An outbreak in animals in one country can rapidly become a global crisis. Strengthening surveillance worldwide protects us all.
https://t.co/IPjntzHed5