date:Feb 14, 2019
wide every year. Illness linked to unsafe food overloads healthcare systems and damages economies, trade and tourism.
The impact of unsafe food costs low- and middle-income economies around $95 billion in lost productivity each year. Because of these threats, food safety must be a paramount goal at every stage of the food chain, from production to harvest, processing, storage, distribution, preparation and consumption, the conference participants stressed.
The partnership between the AU and th