📽️ | Food labels are easy to ignore as you reach out for your favorite product or snack.
👉Yet, information is power and this power can help you take control of your own health.
#FoodSafety | #Codex
@AAzegele@KEBS_ke @kilimoKE 📽️ | Maryuann Kindiki, Codex Contact Point for Kenya🇰🇪 @KEBS_ke explains the importance of Codex’s new Guidelines for food control measures in traditional markets for food - for:
🔸policymakers
🔸regulators
🔸food entrepreneurs
🔸consumers
#CodexCAC47 | #FoodSafety
🤔 | #DYK | Codex guidelines fall into 2⃣ categories:
🔸principles that set out policy in certain key areas;
🔸guidelines for the interpretation of principles, interpretation and extension of provisions of general standards.
➕ℹ️➡️ https://t.co/5WMBikrbc7
#FoodSafety | #Codex
👨🍳 | #CodexAdmin ❤️ leftovers, especially 🍕
🤓 But Codex Admin knows that leftover food should not be stored in the refrigerator for longer than 3⃣ days and should not be reheated (always > 70°C) more than once.
👉 Be like Codex admin: don't waste food❗️
#FoodSafety | #FLWDay
@FAOWHOCodex On behalf of Kenya, we send our congratulations to Dr Cahill and confirm our support to move Codex ahead. Congratulations Dr Sarah Cahill on your appointment as the Codex Secretary
📰 | We are happy to announce that Dr Sarah Cahill has been appointed as the new Codex Secretary.
➕ℹ️➡️ https://t.co/sdkE7WHzdg
#CodexNews | #FoodSafety
📽️ | Inclusivity is a core value for Codex.
👉Women are often at the forefront of the food chain, as producers, as processors, as traders, as consumers and can benefit from Codex work in order to ensure that food is safe and of good quality.
#InternationalWomensDay
🗨️ | In recognition of #WomenInScienceDay, we asked Dr Mbandi, Chairperson for the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene, how she became a scientist and why and how we should support young women who want to follow a scientific path.
🔸Read the full interview ➡️ https://t.co/XvS8708xFn
👥 | The @UN food standards body, the @FAO/@WHO#Codex Alimentarius Commission is meeting on 27 November - 2 December to adopt food safety & quality standards.
📱 Tag us & use #CodexCAC46 in your posts.
📲 Download CAC information & related documents at https://t.co/wMRbcjITDF
🤔 | How confident can today’s consumers be that the spices we buy in our local markets aren’t harbouring harmful levels of pesticides or other contaminants❓
👉Check out our story about spices, food trade and standards.
➕ℹ️➡️ https://t.co/mEa3eD5SmQ
#FoodSafety | #Codex
📙 | Codex provides the rule book and definitions for food safety and quality in order to help countries safely trade food.
👉 Discover a world full of standards ❗️
➕ℹ️➡️ https://t.co/HVJDuRkMn0
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#FoodSafety | #SafeFood
✒️ | Codex standards are often pursued
To ensure all’s well with our food
We work on food safety
And avoid being hasty
So good health and fair trade are accrued
#WorldPoetryDay | #Codex
🎣 The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meetings on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) recently produced a report on the safety and quality of water used in the #fish and #fishery industry.
👉 MORE: https://t.co/LOaHYy5NKT
#foodsafety#watersafety#foodindustry
📝 | Food is much more than what is on our plates. Food connects us all. We all need it, depend on it, survive because of it and derive happiness from it.
👉 Safe, good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.
😀🍎😄🍝😋🥘🥰🍚
#InternationalDayOfHappiness
📝 | Protecting consumer health and promoting fair practices in the food trade by setting international, science-based food safety and quality standards.
👉 Since 1⃣9⃣6⃣3⃣
➕ℹ️➡️ https://t.co/HVJDuRlkcy
🍎🍋🥬🍞🥩🍝🍅📙
#Codex | #FoodSafety
📝 | Safe food is essential to human health and well-being.
👉 Only when food is safe can we fully benefit from its nutritional value and from the mental and social benefits of sharing a safe meal.
➕ℹ️➡️ https://t.co/52fuH6Xcnv
#WorldFoodSafetyDay | #June7
👨💻👩💻 | Codex Members and Observers are invited to join the CCFL webinar on the work and outcomes of the recent @FAO/@WHO expert consultations on allergens.
🗓️ 16 March 2023
🕘 21:00-22:30 CET
➕ℹ️➡️https://t.co/GDAAmeog0A
#FoodSafety | #Codex
📚 | #WeekendReading 4⃣ U ❗️
👉 "Microplastics in food commodities - A food safety review on human exposure through dietary sources".
📲➡️ https://t.co/ujxtRAdTtE
#FoodSafety | #OutNow