World Food Safety Day 2026

EU Food Safety Platform WFSD 2026 multi-stakeholder dialogue

This year’s World Food Safety Day theme”From burden to solutions – safe food everywhere”, underlines how robust data on foodborne diseases can be transformed into concrete actions that protect everyone’s health.
After its successful 2025 edition, to celebrate World Food Safety Day 2026, the EU Food Safety Platform feeds a week-long multi-stakeholder dialogue from 1 to 7 June 2026, featuring contributions from its members and partners across Europe. The aim is to showcase experiences, data-driven approaches and innovative practices that translate the global theme into concrete actions at EU and national level.
The event announcement is also available here: https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/news-and-events/news-details/en/c/1759121/

Day by day, starting on June 1, we’re sharing valuable resources provided by our members,
available here and in our Knowledge Center!

Selected contributions and topics may be further explored in the upcoming EU Food Safety Forum 2026, offering a pathway from online dialogue to deeper face-to-face discussion and potential follow-up actions. This is an opportunity to give visibility to innovative experiences and to collectively advance solutions that make food safer for all.
👉 Explore the official page of the WORLD FOOD SAFETY DAY!

© FAO 2026, Location on FAO website: https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/world-food-safety-day/theme-slogan/en/, accessed March 11, 2026
By quantifying the impact of unsafe food, national authorities, food business operators and consumers can prioritise risks, design targeted interventions and make informed choices that reduce illness, costs and avoidable loss of life. Reliable health and surveillance data are the backbone of effective food safety governance, enabling evidence-based policies, coordinated multisectoral responses and smarter investments along the entire food chain. From farm to fork, all actors – farmers and producers, transporters, retailers, food inspectors, food handlers and consumers – benefit from science-based guidance that helps prevent contamination and foodborne outbreaks. Turning the “burden” into “solutions” means using information on who is most affected, where, and why, to implement measures that make food as safe as possible, everywhere.

The call for contributions was launched on April 2. EU Food Safety Platform selected members were invited to share short inputs such as case studies, tools, policy initiatives, research insights, training or communication activities that illustrate how they use evidence to strengthen food safety. Link for submission (deadline 17 April 2026): FORM to join the celebration of World Food Safety Day 2026.