We welcome the upcoming initiative -Agricultural Innovation Mission for Climate- to be announced at the UN Food Systems Summit on Thursday. It spotlights the need for global ag innovation and new technology R&D for climate change mitigation & adaptation—farming for our future!
We commend APEC for hosting an outstanding workshop on WGS (whole genome sequencing). Excellent presentations and messaging on trade and regulatory capacity building. The science is there; the scientists are, too. The big hurdle remains international private/public sector collaboration.
Have a look at Bill Marler’s tweet/ Stop Food Borne Illness recommendations to modernize US food recall system.
September is National Food Safety Education Month. 48 million cases of foodborne illness are reported annually – that’s about 1 in 6 Americans each year. CDC & FDA postings offer advice for consumers, but without full supply chain compliance, home kitchens are a weak defense.
There’s a wave for food safety tracing and digitalization. And GFSF is on it but we’re not surfers. We’re doers. New tech helps produce food safely but data management software helps deliver it in supply chains. One without the other risks leading to a tsunami, not global food safety.
UN Report on climate change: “Code red for humanity!” We’re doing our small part to reduce carbon emissions in the ag value chain— code food security!
The US CDC/ FDA/ and USDA’s FSIS (food safety & inspection) list these multi-state investigations: Listeria (3); Salmonella (20) and E.Coli (3). Scale that to global supply chains and the threat is exponential. Surveillance is a warning but prevention is a cure.
