March: World Health Day theme of food safety
Food safety was the theme of World Health Day this year.
We spoke to Dr Kazuaki Miyagishima, the World Health Organization’s (WHO)'s Director of Food Safety at the time, who told us there was a lack of data around the burden of foodborne disease.
WHO established the Foodborne Diseases Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) in 2006 - that group published figures in December which estimated one in 10 people suffer from foodborne illness each year.
FQN attended a meeting where the results were discussed and a follow-up interview with Dr Miyagishima and Arie Havelaar, FERG chair, will be published shortly.