On the occasion of 2022 world food safety day, Hospital 57357 celebrates with a 2 day event featuring lectures and workshops and targeting the public and experts in the field.
Cairo, Egypt, Date. The Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 is organizing a celebration on the occasion of the 7th of June world food safety day 2022 titled “Safer food, better health” at the Hospital auditorium on July 21 and 22, 2022, under the sponsorship of the National Nutrition Institute, World Health Organizations, UNICEF, the world nutrition program, the Egyptian Pediatric Association and the Chamber of Food industries. The event falls within the framework of our commitment to guarantee “food safety” and to increase awareness about the role of healthy safe food in supporting general health.
The right nutrition and food safety are vital issues for the health and wellbeing of all community members, especially vulnerable groups such as pregnant women, seniors, and children with cancer. Non-safe nutrition does not just cause many diseases, but it also affects the individual’s productivity and steadiness in training and education.
Back in 2018, the WHO dedicated a day, the 7th of June, for world food safety. The goal was to increase awareness about food safety, emphasizing the role of healthy safe food in disease prevention and in supporting general health, and encouraging worldwide cooperation to support initiatives that ensure food safety, starting with the planting of safe food products, storing, and transporting them to their selling point and ending with preparing and processing them in a healthy and safe manner.
According to international statistics, one out of each 10 individuals falls sick because of food polluted with bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemicals, annually. Children under the age of five constitute the group that is most vulnerable to malnutrition and mortality because of non-safe foods, they bear 40% of food-transmitted diseases.
As such, Hospital 57357 is engaged in stressing the importance of safe food for the community’s health through this event which is held over two days:
- The first day includes scientific lectures about food safety
- The second day features two workshops: the first one discusses risk analysis, critical points control, performance gaps, and the application of IZO 2200, while the second workshop discusses the application of food safety in our daily lives.