6 June, Kathmandu. Amid the risk of coronavirus spread, World Food Safety Day is being marked on Sunday under the theme “Food safety, everyone’s business”.
According to the WHO, the action oriented campaign will promote global food safety awareness and call upon countries and decision makers, the private sector, civil society, UN organizations and the general public to take action.
The second World Food Safety Day will be celebrated to draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect and manage food borne risks, contributing to food security, human health, economic prosperity, agriculture, market access, tourism and sustainable development, WHO states. Likewise, at a programme organized by Food Technology and Quality Control Department in Kathmandu today, the experts suggested that safety and quality food consumption would help reduce the risks of COVID-19.
They stated that so far no evidence was found regarding the transmission of the coronavirus from food to human beings and stated that the consumers and distributors should be more cautious and alter if the ongoing lockdown order were relaxed. Prof. Dr. Ganga Kharel of Tribhuvan University said that the poor and under privileged ones would suffer the most if we failed to maintain food safety.
Kharel also said that intake of healthy food and fruits and balanced diets would develop strong immunity power in the human beings to fight against COVID-19. Senior experts of the Department Bhim Prasad Pulami said that more precautions should be applied to safely bring in the vegetables and foodstuffs in the kitchen from the markets though there is no evidence of transmission of this virus from vegetables or foodstuffs.
