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Africa: UN Agency Stresses Importance of Food Safety On World Health Day
UN News, 7 April 2015
As the United Nations health agency highlights food safety on World Health Day today, the Organisation released new data on the harm caused by foodborne illnesses and the global… Read more »
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Africa: WHO Alerts On Growing Threat of Unsafe Food
Guardian, 6 April 2015
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that eating food contaminated with bugs leads to more than half a billion cases of illness a year and that this global threat… Read more »
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Kenya: WHO Release Guidelines to Prevent Food Poisoning
The Star, 6 April 2015
A week after more than 80 members of Strathmore University suffered food poisoning in Nairobi, the World Health Organisation has released guidelines for food safety. Read more »
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Rwanda: Are Local Restaurants Meeting Hygiene Standards?
New Times, 5 April 2015
Tuesday (April 7th) will be World Health Day; a global health awareness day celebrated every year, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO), with the focus… Read more »
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Mauritius: World Health Day - Minister Gayan Calls for Strong Initiatives for Food Safety
Government of Mauritius, 7 April 2015
Consumers are now taking unprecedented interest in the way food is produced, processed and marketed, and are increasingly calling for strong initiatives from Government and the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Food Safety - How Safe Is Food in Nigeria?
Vanguard, 7 April 2015
Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food… Read more »
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Liberia: Today Is World Health Day
NEWS, 7 April 2015
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has by Proclamation declared Tuesday, April 7, 2015 as World Health Day and is to be observed throughout Liberia as a Working Holiday. Read more »
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Africa: World Health Day - GM Crops Are 'False Miracles,' Warn Global Experts
Fahamu, 2 April 2015
With "Food Safety" being the theme of this year's World Health Day on April 7, 37 laureates of the Right Livelihood Award from across the world have endorsed a declaration on the… Read more »