World Health Day: 5 tips to keep food safe

For the 2015 edition of World Health Day, consumers and food handlers alike are being reminded about the importance of practising food safety – an issue that can quickly escalate from a local problem to an international emergency in the increasingly globalised world.

Under the slogan “From farm to plate, make food safe,” the World Health Organization’s one-day event today, April 7, is being mounted as part of an effort to curb the number of food-borne illnesses which, in 2010 affected an estimated 582 million people and killed 351,000.